Meeting with people brings about no benefit,
Except with the increase of, ‘it has been said,’ and ‘he said,’
So spend less time in conversing with others, though barring,
The acquirement of knowledge or the improvement of one’s condition.

—poet

(Read on pg 133, ‘Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni, Don’t Be Sad. International Islamic Publishing House. Riyadh:2005.)