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Abu Tharr and told the slave who would carry them that he would be manumitted if Abu Tharr would accept it. Abu Tharr, however, did not accept that present in spite of the slave's importunate insistence. "Please," said the slave, "accept it, for I will be manumitted if you do." Abu Tharr answered: "But I will be enslaved if I do!" 91
Deoganes al-Kelbi was one of the famous wise men of Greece. He was so ascetic. He did not possess anything and did not live in a house. Alexander, once, summoned him. He said to the messenger of Alexander: "Tell him: the same thing that prevented you from coming to me has prevented me from coming to you. You did not come to me because you are not in need for me out of your power, and I will not come to you because I am not in need for you out of my satisfaction." 92
Al-Mansour, the Abbasid caliph, wrote a missive to Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (a): "Why do you not visit us like the others?" The Imam answered: "We do not have any worldly pleasure that we anticipate you to stop, nor do you have any matter of the world to come for us that we expect to gain from you, nor are you enjoying bliss on which we should congratulate you, nor are you suffering a misfortune for which we should console you." Al-Mansour wrote: "You may accompany us so that you will advise us." The Imam answered: "He who seeks the worldly pleasures will not advise you, and he who seeks the world to come will not accompany you." 93
GREED
Greed is the excess fondness of money and fortune. It is one of the bad manners that draw to various evils and sins.
Amir ul-Mu'minin (a) said: "Know with certainty that you cannot achieve your desire and cannot exceed your destined life. You are on the track of
