[Machine] He was asked, “Why don’t you acquire an estate as so-and-so and so-and-so have?” He replied, “What use is it to me to be an emir? All that suffices me each day is a drink of water or milk, and on Friday a qafiz of wheat.”
قِيلَ أَلَا تَتَّخِذُ ضَيْعَةً كَمَا اتَّخَذَ فُلَانٌ وَفُلَانٌ؟ قَالَ مَا أَصْنَعُ بِأَنْ أَكُونَ أَمِيرًا؟ وَإِنَّ مَا يَكْفِينِي فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ شَرْبَةُ مَاءٍ أَوْ لَبَنٍ وَفِي الْجُمْعَةِ قَفِيزٌ مِنْ قَمْحٍ
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