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agree to accept any emolument from the government, and, you see, Baghdad does not
contain my ancestral property which I could fall back upon in hard times.
If it should please Allah to take me soon from this world, my family would have
resources in Tus quite sufficient for their maintenance. If I leave Tus at this stage, no
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one will look after my property properly and the result will be that the agricultural lands
belonging to me will yield no harvest at all. I know there are people who would be
gratified to accept such offer, but so far as I am concerned, they are unacceptable to
me. You should know further that it is the evening of my life, and I have to prepare for
death and not offer a journey to Iraq. Therefore, I humbly beseech you to accept my
explanation and forgive my audacity for giving up a professorship for a mystical life.
Suppose I die as soon as I reach Baghdad, would you not select someone else for the
professorship in the Nizamiyya College. Consider my death as having taken place.
contain my ancestral property which I could fall back upon in hard times.
If it should please Allah to take me soon from this world, my family would have
resources in Tus quite sufficient for their maintenance. If I leave Tus at this stage, no
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one will look after my property properly and the result will be that the agricultural lands
belonging to me will yield no harvest at all. I know there are people who would be
gratified to accept such offer, but so far as I am concerned, they are unacceptable to
me. You should know further that it is the evening of my life, and I have to prepare for
death and not offer a journey to Iraq. Therefore, I humbly beseech you to accept my
explanation and forgive my audacity for giving up a professorship for a mystical life.
Suppose I die as soon as I reach Baghdad, would you not select someone else for the
professorship in the Nizamiyya College. Consider my death as having taken place.