the desire upon him which is stinginess which affects the present state of decline nor in what is permissible to reach so that he later becomes weak or incapable of spending money. as for the one who has a clear and evident excuse from one of these two doors or from both of them what has happened to him is not refraining from desire but from reason and deliberation and he should not be removed from it but rather he should increase and remain on it. not every one who refrains is permitted to argue with the second door of these two doors. that is because whoever among the people despairs of reaching through his refraining a higher and more noble rank than the one he is in such as someone who is in the last years of his life or at the furthest ranks that his like can reach then his argument with the second door of these two doors has no basis at all.
الهوى عليه، وهو البخل بما يؤثر في الحالة الحاضرة انحطاطا ولا فيما يرام بلوغه فيمال بعد بالمال ضعفا ولا عجزا. فأما من كان له عذر بين واضح من أحد هذين البابين أو من كليهما فليس ما عرض له الإمساك عن الهوى بل عن العقل والروية، ولا ينبغي أن يزال عنه بل يزيد ويثبت عليه. وليس كل ممسك يسوغ له أن يحتج بالباب الثاني من هذين البابين. وذلك أن من كان من الناس آيسا من أن يبلغ بإمساكه رتبة أعلى وأجل من التي هو فيها كمن كان في أواخر عمره أو في أقصى المراتب التي يمكن أن يبلغها مثله فليس لاحتجاجه بالباب الثاني من هذين البابين وجه بتة