 if they had paved the way for their children and collected for them the eunuchs would not have collected money the monks would not have hoarded treasures the barren woman would not have found rest from the humiliation of desire and the sterile man would have been saved from the toil of greed. how can we find him after the death of his son on whom he depended and for whom he collected in the same state of seeking and greed and in the same state of collecting and withholding as he was before?
ولو كانوا لأولادهم يمهدون، ولهم يجمعون، لما جمع الخصيان الأموال، ولما كنز الرهبان الكنوز، ولا ستراح العاقر من ذل الرغبة، ولسلم العقيم ١ من كد الحرص. وكيف ونحن نجده بعد أن يموت ابنه الذي كان يعتل به، والذي من أجله كان يجمع، على حاله في الطلب والحرص، وعلى مثل ما كان عليه من الجمع والمنع.