الفقراء هم الذين يرحبون به، هيئتُه قريبة من هيئتهم ويخدمهم لله في لله، لا يتحصَّل منهم لا على تعريفة ولا قرش، وإن ضغطوا عليه ودسُّوا شيئًا في سيَّالتِه كان يعتبرها إهانة.
It was the poor who welcomed him; he looked much as they did and served them for God's sake alone, taking neither a half-piastre nor a piastre from them, and if they pressed and slipped something into his pocket he took it as an insult.
From the novel Habashi’s Café · Chapter 5
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.