Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim, Exalted Aphorisms And Pearls Of Speech
Sufficiency
Sufficiency-الكفاف
- Being pleased with what is sufficient is better than striving for lavishness.
1ـ اَلرِّضا بِالكَفافِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ السَّعْيِ فِي الإسْرافِ.
- Being pleased with what suffices leads to virtue.
2ـ اَلرِّضا بِالكَفافِ يُؤَدّي إلَى العَفافِ.
- Blessed is the one who adorns himself with virtue and is satisfied with what suffices.
3ـ طُوبى لِمَنْ تَحَلّى بِالعَفافِ ورَضِيَ بِالكَفافِ.
- One who is content with that which suffices is led by it towards virtue.
4ـ مَنِ اقْتَنَعَ بِالكَفافِ أدّاهُ إلَى العَفافِ.
- One who limits himself to what suffices hastens comfort and lives in an abode of ease.
5ـ مَنِ اقْتَصَرَ عَلَى الكَفافِ تَعَجَّلَ الرّاحَةَ وتَـبَوَّءَ
خَفْضَ الدَّعَةِ.
- No one can dispense with the need to seek his sustenance and that which he requires of provisions.
6ـ لا غِنى بِأحَد مِنَ الاِرْتيادِ، وقَدْرِ بَلاغِهِ مِنَ الزّادِ.