And expend in the way of God, what you possess of knowledge by acting in accordance therewith and do not store this away for some other time, lest you not live to see it, for there is nothing more injurious than procrastination; and cast not [yourselves] by your own hands into, the, destruction, that is excess and the postponement of action through knowledge, expending it for the welfare of your souls, since that necessarily brings about privation; but be virtuous, in other words, in [the performance of] your acts be witnesses, for indeed God loves the virtuous, those who are witnesses of their Lord in their acts, performing them in sincere devotion to Him.
