Yacub, the Sufi, says: "He who conceals his virtues like vices, is sincere." In a dream a man saw a Sufi who was dead and inquired about the actions of his previous life, "All those actions" said the Sufi, "which were for God's sake I was rewarded for, even the least of them. For example, I had thrown aside a pomegranate's peel from the thoroughfare. I found my dead cat but lost my ass worth one hundred dinars, and a silken thread on my cap was found on the side of iniquities. Once, I gave something in charity, and was pleased to see people looking at me,—this action has neither reward nor punishment for me". "How is it that you got your cat and lost your ass?" said the man to the Sufi, "Because", responded the latter, "When I heard of the death of my ass I said: 'Damn it'. I ought to have thought of God's will". Saint Sufyan Saori, when he heard of this dream, said, "The Sufi was fortunate as no punishment was meted out to him
