Letter from the teacher Abū Saʿīd to al-Shaykh al-Raṣuy, in which he asks in the most humble terms to be paid the fees due to …
God knows that I would not have mentioned
thisto
my lord, had I not known that my lord does not
tolerate
such a state of affairs.
Moreover, some little orphan girls live with me who are deprived of everything one needs in
this
world — yes, no less than
this.