“The entire world is worthless excepting five things: to eat for survival, to take water in order to slake thirst, clothes to cover body, house to dwell in, knowledge just to act upon.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, p. 43
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Sari al-Saqati 10
Iraqi sufi 772–867Related quotes
“Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
What will not men to slake such thirst?”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 77
Biharul Anwar, Volume 1, Page 222
Shi'ite Hadith
Source: Poverty (1912), p. 7
Context: To be above the poverty line, means no more than to have a sanitary dwelling and sufficient food and clothing to keep the body in working order. It is precisely the same standard that a man would demand for his horses or slaves. Treating man merely as the "repository of a certain sort of labor power," it makes possible the utilization of that power to the fullest extent. No one will fail to realize how low such a standard is. It does not necessarily include any of the intellectual, aesthetic, moral, or social necessities; it is a purely physical standard...
Kanzul `Ummal, Volume 7, Tradition 18859
Shi'ite Hadith
to say nothing of their share of the other social benefits which the rest of us are supposed to furnish, such as education and artistic gratification.
Direct Action (1912)
“No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.”
Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 5 (p. 59)
