“Do not judge a customer by the clothes he wears: he may not have paid for them. Be courteous to all men. The humblest of your neighbors may sit upon your jury one day.
“A business man who finds it necessary to attend a daily noon prayer-meeting is either abnormally virtuous or his piety is of a kind that needs a good deal of stimulus to keep it going.”
A young man who had listened with attention to this discourse came at the close to Shacabac and asked, “How shall I become rich without too much trouble?”
“List to me,” replied the wise man, “and I will teach thee in six easy consecutive lessons, at one sequin per lesson.”
The young man, joyfully complying, paid the money, and sat at the feet of the Sage. But, when the course was over, he cried out, “Bismillah! thou hast taught me naught.”
“Nay,” returned the Sage. “I have taught thee how to make six sequins. Go to, ungrateful one.”
And the ungrateful one, abashed at the reproof, immediately opened a Commercial College where every branch of Business could be learned “while you wait.”
But the envious Badeg, looking on, scoffed aloud, saying, “I know how to make a fortune without waiting at all!”