14ـ اَلشُّحُّ يَكْسِبُ المَسَبَّةَ.

14ـ اَلشُّحُّ يَكْسِبُ المَسَبَّةَ. Stinginess degrades its possessor. 15ـ اَلبُخْلُ يُزْري بِصاحِبِهِ. Stinginess earns condemnation. 16ـ اَلبُخْلُ يَكْسِبُ الذَّمَّ. Stinginess gives rise to hatred. 17ـ البُخْلُ يُوجِبُ البَغْضاءَ. Stinginess with what is available [in one’s possession] is thinking negatively of God. 18ـ اَلبُخْلُ بِالمَوجُودِ سُوءُ الظَّنِّ بِالمَعْبُودِ. Stinginess humiliates its possessor and elevates the one who turns away from it.

19ـ اَلبُخْلُ يُذِلُّ مُصاحِبَهُ ويُعِزُّ مُجانِبَهُ. Through stinginess, vilification increases. 20ـ بِالبُخْلِ تَـكْثُرُ المَسَبَّةُ. The worst trait is stinginess. 21ـ بِئْسَ الخَليقَةُ البُخْلُ. Excessive avarice sullies chivalry and spoils brotherhood. 22ـ زِيادَةُ الشُّحِّ تَشينُ الفُتُوَّةَ وتُفْسِدُ الاُخُوَّةَ. In avarice there is vilification (and dishonour). 23ـ فِي الشُّحِّ المَسَبَّةُ (السَّبَّةُ). Excessive avarice leads to vilification. 24ـ كَثْرَةُ الشُّحِّ تُوجِبُ المَسَبَّةَ.

If you were to see stinginess in the form of a man, you would have surely seen an ugly, disfigured person. 25ـ لَوْ رَأيْتُمُ البُخْلَ رَجُلاً لَرَأيْتُمُوهُ شَخْصاً مُشَوَّهاً. If you were to see stinginess in the form of a man, you would have surely seen a disfigured person, from whom every eye would look away and every heart would turn away. 26ـ لَوْ رَأيْتُمُ البُخْلَ رَجُلاً لَرَأيْتُمُوهُ مُشَوَّهاً يُغَضُّ عَنْهُ كُلُّ بَصَر، ويَنْصَرِفُ عَنْهُ كُلُّ قَلْب.

One who persists in avarice is deprived of [sincere] advisers. 27ـ مَنْ لَزِمَ الشُّحَّ عَدِمَ النَّصيحَ. Avarice is one of the most revolting traits. 28ـ مِنْ أقْبَحِ الخَلائِقِ الشُّحُّ. How revolting is stinginess with affluence! 29ـ ما أقْبَحَ البُخْلَ مَعَ الإكْثارِ. How revolting is stinginess by those who possess nobility. 30ـ ما أقْبَحَ البُخْلَ بِذَوِى النُّبْلِ. Nothing brings down the wrath of Allah like stinginess. 31ـ مَا اجْتُلِبَ سَخَطُ اللّهِ بِمِثْْلِ البُخلِ.

The honourable do not flee from death the way they flee from stinginess and the company of the wicked. 32ـ ما فِرارُ الكِرامِ مِنَ الحِمامِ كَفِرارِهِمْ مِنَ البُخلِ ومُقارَنَةِ اللِّئامِ. There is no vilification like avarice. 33ـ لا مَسَبَّةَ كالشُّحِّ. There is no alienation like avarice. 34ـ لا غُرْبَةَ كالشُّحِّ. There is no magnanimity with avarice. 35ـ لا مُرُوَّةَ مَعَ شُحّ. There is no evil trait worse than avarice. 36ـ لا سَوْأةَ أسْوَأُ مِنَ الشُّحِّ.