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On the Effects of Education liberated. How can the like of us attain their high position, and how does the bestowing resemble the receiving hand? Knowest thou not that God the Most High and Glorious mentions in his revealed word the pleasures of paradise: 'They shall have a certain provision [in paradise] to inform thee that those who are occupied [with cares] for a subsistence are excluded from the felicity of piety, and that the realm of leisure is under the ring of the certain provision. The thirsty look in their sleep on the whole world as a spring of water.'

"Wherever thou beholdest one who has experienced destitution and tasted bitterness, throwing himself wickedly into fearful adventures and not avoiding their consequences, he fears not the punishment of Yazed, and does not discriminate between what is licit or illicit. The dog whose head is touched by a clod of earth leaps for joy, imagining it to be a bone. And when two men take a corpse on their shoulders, a greedy fellow supposes it to be a table [with food]. But the possessor of wealth is regarded with a favourable eye by the Almighty for the lawful [acts he has done] and preserved from the unlawful [acts he might commit].

"Although I have not fully explained this matter, nor adduced arguments, I rely on thy sense of justice to tell me whether thou hast ever seen a mendicant with his hands tied up to his shoulders, or a poor fellow sitting in prison, or a veil of innocence rent, or a guilty hand amputated, except in consequence of poverty? Lion-hearted men were on account of their necessities captured in mines [which they had dug to rob houses] and their heels were perforated. It is also possible that a Dervish, impelled by the cravings of his lust, and unable to restrain it, may commit sin, because the stomach and the