and the fear of the brothers and in what exceeded the glory of wealth and the security of lack. and with this and similar to it from and from miserliness and greed she belittled those who needed her and magnified those who did not need her. and made her eager and yearning extreme and bored much in dispute and change the temptation prevails over her and her good is worn out by its evil and her patience by her impatience. and were it not for these qualities the trials would have fallen so she magnifies the little by necessity to it if it is from her sustenance or by the intensity of the dispute and longing if it is from the side of her desires for the types of desires are many and for each type of them there are people who do not swear by anything other than it. and she marvels at the strange and rare and the new and unexpected makes her laugh. however if the strange becomes abundant it becomes close and if the desired exceeds the extent of her capacity and needs and becomes apparent and superfluous she belittles it and its abundance becomes small in her eyes. and the greatest things in her esteem are those to which poverty and need are intense even if their value is small and the easiest for her is that which she does not need even if its danger is great. and he made a place in her strength for what she longs for and yearns for. when that place is filled with joy and that person has satisfied what he had been yearning for and quenched what he had been thirsty for he will turn away from it and detest it and his love will turn into hatred and his longing into boredom.
وخوف الإخوان، وفيما تجاوزه عز الغنى وأمن العدم. وبهذا وبمثله من ومن البخل والحرص استخفت من احتاج إليها، وأعظمت من استغنى عنها. وجعلها تواقة مشتاقة، متطرفة ملالة، كثيرة النزاع والتقلب، تستحكم عليها الفتنة، ويبلى خيرها من شرها وصبرها من جزعها. ولولا هذه الخلال سقطت المحن، فهي تعظم القليل بالضرورة إليه إن كان من أقواتها، أو لشدة النزاع والشوق إن كان من طرف شهواتها؛ فإن صنوف الشهوات كثيرة، ولكل صنف منها أهل لا يحلفون بما سواه. وتتعجب من الغريب النادر، ويضحكها البديع الطارئ. إلا أنه إذا كثر الغريب صار قريبا، وإذا تجاوز المطلوب مقدار وسعها وحاجاتها فصار ظهريا وفضلا استخفت به وقل في أعينها كثيره. وأعظم الأشياء عندها قدرا ما اشتد إليه الفقر والحاجة وإن قل قدره، وأهونها عليها ما استغنى عنه وإن عظم خطره. وجعل لما تتوق إليه وتشتاقه مكانا من قواها، له. فإذا امتلأ ذلك المكان سرورا، وقضى ذلك الأرب وطرا مما كان طمح إليه، وروى مما كان ظامئا إليه، انصرف عنه وقلاه، وحال عشقه بغضا، وشوقه ملالا.