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89 – The judge Abū al-Qāsim informed us; Abū ʿAlī narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; al-Ḥusayn recited:
[metre: al-Baḥr al-Kāmil]
If you would store a kindness, seeking thanks for it,
then keep it with the people of lofty character.
And should you fall on hard times, guard your honor well;
hide your poverty beneath the cloak of contentment.
٨٩ - أَخْبَرَنَا الْقَاضِي أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، أَنْشَدَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ:
[البحر الكامل]
وَإِذَا ادَّخَرْتَ صَنِيعَهً تَبْغِي بِهَا ... شُكْرًا فَعِنْدَ ذَوِي الْمَكَارِمِ فَادَّخِرْ
وَإِذَا افْتَقَرْتَ فَكُنْ لِعِرْضِكَ صَائِنًا ... وَعَلَى الْخَصَاصَةِ بِالْقَنَاعَةِ فَاسْتَتِرْ