dogs 1 because they are less trustful and have worse thoughts about god. the generous person is either trustful or has better thoughts about god. in any case he is more like the trustful and tends to what is similar to him. 2 however his affair turns and the situation returns to him he is not one who relies on his prudence and resorts to his pocket 3 and returns to the quality of his precautions and the intensity of his vigilance. the misers illness with events 4 and his bad thoughts about the vicissitudes of time are only a metaphor for his bad thoughts about the creator of events and about what happens and about the people of time. do events occur except according to the estimation of the one who creates them and do times differ 5 except according to the disposition of the one who manages them? are we not certain even if we are ignorant of their causes that they proceed to their ends?
أكلب ١ ، لأنهم أقل توكلا وأ سوأ بالله ظنا. والجواد إما أن يكون متوكلا، وإما أن يكون أحسن بالله ظنا. وهو على كل حال بالمتوكل أشبه، وإلى ما أشبهه أنزع ٢ ، وكيفما دار أمره، ورجعت الحال به، فليس ممن يتكل على حزمه، ويلجأ إلى كيسه ٣ ، ويرجع إلى جودة إحتياطه، وشدة احتراسه. واعتلال البخيل بالحدثان ٤ ، وسوء الظن بتقلب الزمان، إنما هو كناية عن سوء الظن بخالق الحدثان وبالذي يحدث، وأهل الزمان. وهل تجري الأحداث إلا على تقدير المحدث لها، وهل تختلف الأزمنة ٥ إلا على تصريف من دبرها؟ أولسنا وإن جهلنا أسبابها، فقد أيقنا بأنها تجري إلى غاياتها؟