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Now, I would like to turn to the affairs of the Niazmiyya College and regret very much
my inability to comply with your Excellency's commands that direct me to accept the
post of professor in this college. You do not know how infinitely my happiness has
increased since my retirement to Tus. I have no other desire but the quietness I enjoy
here. If I leave Tus and go to Baghdad, obviously my intention in undertaking the
journey would be either to gain worldly wealth and glory or add to religious
achievements. Al Hamdulillah, I have already renounced worldly pomp and glory. This
world has nothing to give me and my heart, my hopes are in the next world. The
glamour of the worldly life around me during the previous period at the Nizamiyya
College accentuated the bitterness of my early tragedy which I cannot forget till my

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death. Even if the seat of the government of Baghdad, together with its vast properties
is shifted to Tus, it would not be possible for me to dedicate myself to public affairs.

If I accede to your request, you would find that my influence over a good part of the
public would be greatly diminished, for every one will say that I have sold myself for the