All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds.
AL-SHAFI'IKnowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.
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To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.
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Be hard on yourself, easy on others.
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I complained to Waki’ about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience;
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If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.
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Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.
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Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him.
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The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status.
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There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah – a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.
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How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.
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And the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.
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When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening and an escape
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O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.
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You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.
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My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.
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He may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.
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