To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
ALI IBN-ABI-TALIB Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train the...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB دواؤك فيك وما تُبصر وداؤك منك وما تَشعر
وَ تزعم أنك ج...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him e...
ALI IBN-ABI-TALIB He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkne...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB You [humans] think that you an insignificant, while there is a great universe contained in you.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, bu...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB O Alaah, i haven't worshiped you because of lusting of heaven or fearing of hill. I've worshiped you...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Let me alone, and go in search of someone else..
ALI IBN ABI TALIB People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow
ALI IBN ABI TALIB I do not find that piety benefits a man who practises it unless he controls his tongue. Certainly, t...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB People are like waves of the ocean, some cover you with tides of refreshment, whilst others drown yo...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB لا ترغب فيمن زهد فيك
ALI IBN ABI TALIB whoever prolongs his desire ruins his actions
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Let me alone, and go in search of someone else..
ALI TALIB No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.
ALI TALIB People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
ALI TALIB A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
ALI TALIB If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
ALI TALIB Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with...
ALI TALIB You [humans] think that you an insignificant, while there is a great universe contained in you.
ALI TALIB A man's measure is his will.
ALI TALIB To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
ALI TALIB Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
ALI TALIB Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after his
req...
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that ...
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it...
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S You were ordered to obey to Allah, and you were create to perform good deeds.
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S You must be humble, as it is one of the greatest [forms of] worship.
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S Beware of speaking too much, for it increases mistakes and engenders boredom.
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckl...
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S Our followers are like bees which live among birds. None of the birds recognize the bees because of ...
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S Patience ensures victory.
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S You are master of what you say until you utter it, once you deliver it, you are its captive. Preserv...
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S And be aware that people fall under one of two categories: they are either your brother and sister i...
IMAM ALI BIN ABI TALEB There are so many stories that need to be done about the Pearl case. There is so much that we don't ...
ABI WRIGHT As Yahoo appears to be evolving in that direction (toward news gathering), it's something we'll like...
ABI WRIGHT We have already caught some 70 pilgrims who had onions, garlic, vegetables and food items in their l...
ABI ABDULLAH You lot are the most ridiculous looking men I have ever seen in my life.
ABI TITMUSS In return, most of these pilgrims were assured a prompt visa and ticket processing. The innocent pil...
ABI ABDULLAH I'm an angel in the courtroom and a whore in the bedroom
ABI TITMUSS This is a tale of woe. This is a tale of sorrow. A love denied, a love restored, to live beyond tomo...
ABI MORGAN I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me....
TALIB KWELI Woman are complex creatures.
TALIB KWELI Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
TALIB KWELI It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because...
TALIB KWELI If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a ...
TALIB KWELI I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
TALIB KWELI I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think ...
TALIB KWELI So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focuse...
TALIB KWELI I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you ap...
TALIB KWELI Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio,...
TALIB KWELI You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disco...
TALIB KWELI Hip-hop is a vehicle.
TALIB KWELI Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black communit...
TALIB KWELI My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York Un...
TALIB KWELI You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empo...
TALIB KWELI I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop commu...
TALIB KWELI That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
TALIB KWELI You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a ...
TALIB KWELI Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
TALIB KWELI Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
TALIB KWELI I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot ...
TALIB KWELI A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though the...
TALIB KWELI The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a goo...
TALIB KWELI I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
TALIB KWELI There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourse...
TALIB KWELI I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, ...
TALIB KWELI You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be har...
TALIB KWELI The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ...
TALIB KWELI I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulle...
TALIB KWELI We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our polic...
TALIB KWELI I saw the bodies and blood covering the walls and ground. Many people died inside. Many died.
ABBAS TALIB Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not ...
TALIB KWELI If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne...
TALIB KWELI So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being...
TALIB KWELI People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, bot...
TALIB KWELI I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
TALIB KWELI The ground was all flesh and blood.
ABBAS TALIB We have to leave the villa discreetly,” Blake said. “We need a smokescreen.
KHALED TALIB Kind words dispel clouds of fear like the moonlight's smile on water.
KHALED TALIB What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group whe...
TALIB KWELI Some people tell me it doesn't make any difference -- a green-card holder is the same as a citizen. ...
ALI ALI I hate to be waiting all my life. Just tell me.
ALI ALI I was wedded to all the stars of the sky.There was not a single star left, and I married every one o...
IBN ARABI Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to...
IBN GABIROL There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
IBN GABIROL Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
IBN GABIROL I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
IBN GABIROL The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
IBN GABIROL Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
IBN GABIROL My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
IBN GABIROL إذا ما التقَينا للوَداعِ حسِبتَنا لدَى الضّمّ والتعني...
IBN ARABI إذا طالبك أحد بالدليل والبرهان على علوم الأسرار الإلهي...
IBN ARABI يا من يراني ولا أراه . . كم ذا أراه ولا يراني
IBN ARABI My night has become a sunny dawn because of you
IBN ABBAD As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before w...
IBN WARRAQ It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in...
IBN ARABI I do not wish to live in a society where you are stoned for adultery. I prefer to live in a society ...
IBN WARRAQ دخلتُ يوماً بقرطبةَ على قاضيها أبى الوليد بن رشد ، وكان...
IBN ARABI Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
IBN BATTUTA Some small ideas grew to become larger than life.
ALAA ABI JOMAA All Religions are man made; everything else is made by God.
ALAA ABI JOMAA Every woman has its beauty, but not every man can recognize it.
ALAA ABI JOMAA Don't let your kids inherit your own beliefs, instead give them the chance to be innovative.
ALAA ABI JOMAA Sometimes i feel that I control the rain in my country, all i have to do is wash my car.
ALAA ABI JOMAA For man always looked to hire a fool to amuse him without knowing he was one all along.
HANNA ABI AKL And hope was an oath I swore never to take.
HANNA ABI AKL There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
ABRAHAM IBN ESRA A wise man's question contains half the answer.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and...
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL A wise man's question contains half the answer.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to...
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the ...
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your fri...
HASDAI IBN SHAPRUT There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
ABRAHAM IBN ESRA Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.
MOSES IBN EZRA If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief.
BAHYA IBN PAQUDA سورة البقرة (2) : آية 54]
وَإِذْ قالَ مُوسى لِقَوْمِهِ ي...
AHMAD IBN ʿAJIBA Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on
IBN-E-SAFI There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine w...
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL A wise man’s questions contain half the answer.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
TATYANA ALI Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
TATYANA ALI I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA the...
TATYANA ALI I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn'...
TATYANA ALI I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.
TATYANA ALI Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to k...
TATYANA ALI Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.
TATYANA ALI Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because ...
TATYANA ALI I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can ...
TATYANA ALI Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creatin...
TATYANA ALI Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
TATYANA ALI I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch...
TATYANA ALI I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
TATYANA ALI Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to ch...
TARIQ ALI Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membersh...
TARIQ ALI Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutral...
TARIQ ALI Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socia...
TARIQ ALI The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become add...
TARIQ ALI Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standar...
TARIQ ALI The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes gra...
TARIQ ALI I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the...
TARIQ ALI I was never totally what we would now call 'politically correct,' even in my most militant p...
TARIQ ALI The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before a...
TARIQ ALI The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity cou...
TARIQ ALI History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
TARIQ ALI 'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the ...
TARIQ ALI I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends...
TARIQ ALI Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures...
TARIQ ALI The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ...
TARIQ ALI In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be jus...
TARIQ ALI Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
TARIQ ALI The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through ser...
TARIQ ALI When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather j...
TARIQ ALI The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of ...
TARIQ ALI Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red ...
TARIQ ALI In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world h...
TARIQ ALI I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
TARIQ ALI I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
IMTIAZ ALI Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was ...
IMTIAZ ALI I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
IMTIAZ ALI I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, a...
IMTIAZ ALI I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or writte...
IMTIAZ ALI