Words of Wisdom Volume 21
Words of Wisdom Volume 21
The author Abu Anees Muhammad Barkat Ali writes in this Volume of his monologues about Hadrat Ibrahim bin Adham~(d.l60 AH/777 CE) that having abdicated the succession of a kingdom of forty princes to the State of Balkh and taken to indigence, he always said: "This merchandise (of faq'r) came by so cheap!" In another account it is reported to have accosted a man who bewailed of his condition and complained of poverty thus: "Myson, perhaps you paid but little for your poverty! I bought it at the price of this world’s ssovereignty, and I would buy one instant of this poverty again with a hundred worlds, for every moment of it becomes worth yet more to me: 'Many of Ibrahim bin Adham's ilk, the sultans of faq'r, came to pass as the Shajrah-i-Tayyibah, Dar-ul-Ehsan, also narrates some of them in the text of this Volume.