32 – Muhammad ibn al-Ḥusayn said: al-Salt ibn Ḥakīm narrated to me, saying: ʿĀmir ibn Yasāf narrated to me, from Mālik ibn Dīnār, who said:

“Sorrow is of two kinds: one that permeates and one that lies inert. The permeating sorrow is the kind that congeals within the body and overruns it; its bearer is seen only as gloomy, grief-stricken, and distressed. Wherever you encounter him he is searching for his heart; were he to know that his heart could become sound on a garbage heap, he would go there. That, then, is the sorrow that brings benefit.”