Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim, Exalted Aphorisms And Pearls Of Speech

Expressing Your Needs

Expressing Your Needs الإحتياجات

1. Express your needs to whomever you wish and (you will) become his captive.

1ـ إحْتَجْ إلى مَنْ شِئْتَ وَكُنْ (تَـكُنْ) أسِيْـرَهُ.

2. When you express your needs to someone, you abase yourself before him.

2ـ مَنِ احْتَجْتَ إلَيْهِ هُنْتَ عَلَيْهِ.

3. One who seeks his needs from you, his obedience to you will be to the extent of his need from you.

3ـ مَنِ احْتاجَ إلَيْكَ كانَتْ طاعَتُهُ لَكَ بِقَدْرِ حاجَتِهِ

4. When someone turns to you with his needs, it becomes obligatory upon you to help him.

4ـ مَنِ احْتاجَ إلَيْكَ وَجَبَ إسْعافُهُ عَلَيْكَ.