1. Wisdom is beyond the grasp of one whose life

    is spent toiling for his family's welfare.

  2. Nor is knowledge attained except by a youth

    free from preoccupations and toil.

  3. Had Luqman the Wise—whose

    virtue the caravans carried far and wide—

  4. been tried by poverty and mouths to feed, he would never

    have told straw from greens.

Sol 5.6