On Work

Seorang pembajak tanah meminta nasihat mengenai pekerjaan pada Almustafa.

• Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune

• And what it is to work with love?

  It is to leave the cloth with threads drawn from your hearth, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.

  It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.

  It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.

  It is to charge all things your fashion with a breath of your own spirit,

  And to know all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching.