Money-changers
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the money-changers · al-ṣayārifah · the banker's familiar
in the texts
Stromata
Trained coin-assayers used as an illustrative analogy for the trained discernment needed to separate true faith from counterfeit.
For there is an approved coin and another counterfeit, which deceives the laymen no less, but not the money-changers, who know, having learned, to separate and distinguish the counterfeit from the approved.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Bankers or exchangers, used as the figure of men who exhaust themselves handling what is not theirs.
9 — Do not busy yourself with books, commending their titles and taking pains over their arrangement and ordering while you are slack about what is in them and about mastering it, so becoming like the money-changers, who wear out their bodies for others.