Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
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GERMANY KENT And certainly We sent apostles before you: there are some of them that We have mentioned to you and ... QURAN There is no harm in the Prophet doing that which Allah has ordained for him; such has been the cours... QURAN I have American friends in France, and when I meet with them, they tell me about everything that is ... MAELLE GAVET I'm hoping that it's somebody with law enforcement background, and maybe has some knowledge of this ... JOE MARTINEZ For the most part, magic secrets are available on a level that's overwhelming and frightening, a... RICKY JAY Some people have a talent and some people are blessed with a gift. Andy has a gift. LAURA HART As with all individuals about whom statements may be made in the upcoming report, the secretary-gene... MARIE OKABE Are there going to be love scenes in it? How do you portray it correctly? It has to be done with som... LEE IELPI If you fall in love with jerk, don't you just reject him. 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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. 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. 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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... 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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. 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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