Al-Shafi‘i Quotes
Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.
Al-Shafi‘i
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.
William Blake
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Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished.
[It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Do not worry, and worry.
Marilyn Monroe
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If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.
Bill Murray
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When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.
Francis Bacon
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The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.
Margery Allingham
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Then might ye see
Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost
And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads,
Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls,
The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft
Fly to the rearward of the world far off
Into a limbo large and broad, since called
The paradise of fools.
John Milton
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Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
William Empson
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The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.
Erik Erikson
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Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.
Al-Shafi‘i