I walk the old streets and observe your life, you traders in the stalls, as you send out your unsolicited calls to passersbys. It's the sweet longing to earn that imbues your day with excitment and experience, yet doesn't diminish your worth, as if here indeed were the fabled longing to "rest" in idleness". Yes; for this longing quite lacks the freny that tries to snatch everything up. There is not haste in it. No envy.

The Unromantic Orient-Muhammad Asad(Translated by the German by Elma Ruth Harder)