فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا جَابِرُ مَلَاذُّ الدُّنْيَا سَبْعَةٌ...

فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا جَابِرُ مَلَاذُّ الدُّنْيَا سَبْعَةٌ الْمَأْكُولُ وَ الْمَشْرُوبُ وَ الْمَلْبُوسُ وَ الْمَنْكُوحُ وَ الْمَرْكُوبُ وَ الْمَشْمُومُ وَ الْمَسْمُوعُ He -asws said to him -ra : ‘O Jabir -ra ! Pleasures of the world are seven – the edibles, and the drinkables, and the wearables, and the relationships, and the rides, and the smells, and the listened.

فَأَلَذُّ الْمَأْكُولَاتِ الْعَسَلُ وَ هُوَ بَصْقٌ مِنْ ذُبَابَةٍ وَ أَحْلَى الْمَشْرُوبَاتِ الْمَاءُ وَ كَفَى بِإِبَاحَتِهِ وَ سِبَاحَتِهِ عَلَى وَجْهِ الْأَرْضِ The most pleasurable of the edibles is the honey, and it is a spit from its fly (bee), and the sweetest of the drinks is the water, and suffice with its legalisation and its bathing upon the surface of the earth.

وَ أَعْلَى الْمَلْبُوسَاتِ الدِّيبَاجُ وَ هُوَ مِنْ لُعَابِ دُودَةٍ وَ أَعْلَى الْمَنْكُوحَاتِ النِّسَاءُ وَ هُوَ مَبَالٌ فِي مَبَالٍ وَ مِثَالٌ لِمِثَالٍ وَ إِنَّمَا يُرَادُ أَحْسَنُ مَا فِي الْمَرْأَةِ لِأَقْبَحِ مَا فِيهَا And loftiest of the wearables is the brocade (silk), and it is from the saliva of an insect; and the highest of the copulations are (with) the women, and it is an interest in an interest, and an example for an example, and rather the best of what is wanted in the woman is the ugliest of what is in her.

وَ أَعْلَى الْمَرْكُوبَاتِ الْخَيْلُ وَ هُوَ قَوَاتِلُ وَ أَجَلُّ الْمَشْمُومَاتِ الْمِسْكُ وَ هُوَ دَمٌ مِنْ سُرَّةِ دَابَّةٍ وَ أَجَلُّ الْمَسْمُوعَاتِ الْغِنَاءُ وَ التَّرَنُّمُ وَ هُوَ إِثْمٌ فَمَا هَذِهِ صِفَتُهُ لَمْ يَتَنَفَّسْ عَلَيْهِ عَاقِلٌ And the highest of the rides is the horse, and it is a battler; and the best of the smells is the musk, and it is a blood from the navel of an animal; and best of the listened is the music and the singing, and it is a sin.

So, what are these descriptions? An intellectual will not be competing upon it’. قَالَ جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ فَوَ اللَّهِ مَا خَطَرَتِ الدُّنْيَا بَعْدَهَا عَلَى قَلْبِي Jabir Bin Abdullah -ra said: ‘By Allah -azwj ! The world did not occur upon my -ra heart after it’’.