[Machine] I heard Al-Hasan say, "By Allah, I have seen people who have not folded a single garment, nor ordered the making of food for their families, nor placed anything between themselves and the ground. And even though one of them would say, 'I wish I had eaten a morsel that would remain in my stomach like a brick,' he would still say, 'We have been informed that a brick remains in water for three hundred years.'"  

سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ يَقُولُ وَاللَّهِ لَقَدْ أَدْرَكْتُ أَقْوَامًا مَا طُوِيَ لِأَحَدٍ مِنْهُمْ ثَوْبٌ قَطُّ وَلَا أَمَرَ فِي أَهْلِهِ بِصَنْعَةِ طَعَامٍ قَطُّ وَلَا جَعَلَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ الْأَرْضِ شَيْئًا قَطُّ وَإِن كَانَ أَحَدُهُمْ لَيَقُولُ لَوَدِدْتُ أَنِّي أَكَلْتُ أَكْلَةً فَتَصِيرُ فِي جَوْفِي مِثْلَ الْآجُرَّةِ وَكَانَ يَقُولُ بَلَغَنَا أَنَّ الْآجُرَّةَ تَبْقَى فِي الْمَاءِ ثَلَاثَمِائَةِ سَنَةٍ