How the fox answered the ass and urged him to seek a livelihood.

The fox said, “Leave these stories and apply all your poor efforts to earning a livelihood.

God has given you hands: do some work, earn something, help a friend.

Every one takes steps to earn something and (thereby) helps other friends (to earn),

Because all the earning is not done by one (craftsman): (there is) a carpenter and also a water-carrier and a weaver.

By means of this partnership (the order of) the world is maintained: every one, (being impelled) by want, chooses some work.

’Tis not right to be a lick-platter (idle parasite) in the midst (of them): the way of the Sunna is to work and earn.”