The Prophet used to eat on the ground, and sat like a slave. He repaired his shoe with his
hand, and patched his clothes with his hand. He would ride an unsaddled ass and would seat
someone behind him. If there was a curtain on his door with pictures on it he would say to
one of his wives. "O' such-and-such, take it away out of my sight because if I look at it I recall
the world and its allurements." Thus, he removed his heart from this world and destroyed its
remembrance from his mind.
He loved that its allurements should remain hidden from his eye so that he should not secure
good dress from it, should not regard it a place of stay and should not hope to live in it.
Consequently, he removed it from his mind, let it go away from his heart and kept it hidden
from his eyes. In the same way he who hates a thing should hate to look at it or to hear about
it.
