Al-Shafi‘i Quotes

Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.

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• There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

  

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• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

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• As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.

  

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• But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in – make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

  

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• Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.

  

  Al-Shafi‘i
  • Wealth
  • Accumulation
  • Vie