Greed is Hollow
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
Shaykh Shahab ad-Din
Abu al-‘Abbas Ahmad ibn ‘Umar al-Mursi (q.s.) said, “At the beginning of
the business, I was in Alexandria and went to someone who knew me. I bought something I needed from him for half
a dirham. I said to myself, ‘Perhaps
he will not take it from me.’ An
invisible voice said to me, ‘Safety in the diyn lies in abandoning greed
for creatures.’ I also heard him say, ‘Someone
with greed will never be full. Do you
not see that all its letters are hollow: ta’, mim and ‘ayn?’”
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