“Poetry is practically the only intellectual pursuit which we can be positive was highly developed and much practiced in pre-Islamic Arabia. It… — Franz Rosenthal Poetry Copy Share Image
“The seekers after knowledge should, of course, not seek worldly knowledge and worldly gain but devote themselves to the denunciation of the… — Franz Rosenthal Fear Copy Share Image
“The intellect itself was unable to state who God was, until God anointed its eyes with the light of divine uniqueness, for,… — Franz Rosenthal God Copy Share Image
“The man who has knowledge is considered most outstanding among people, Even if he does not occupy a position of nobility among… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Scholars who have to spend their time among ignoramuses, or, even worse, are under their control, are to be pitied. Knowledge, being… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“When Jesus was hailed with the words, “Blessed be the womb that bore you,” he retorted, “Blessed be the one whom God… — Franz Rosenthal Books Copy Share Image
“Knowledge will not be taken away from mankind, but scholars will disappear. When no scholar remains, stupid men will be put in… — Franz Rosenthal Scholars Copy Share Image
“Umar puts his awareness of the restlessness for more and more knowledge that possesses true scholars, in these words: “Scholars are more… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“Socrates “was asked why seawater had become salty. He replied: If you can indicate to me the use that will come to… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“One of the early Muslims, Ubâdah b. a - âmit (d. ca. 34/654–55), exhorted his son al-Walîd on his deathbed in these… — Franz Rosenthal Believe in god Copy Share Image
“The majority con- sensus, however, reached eventually was again expressed clearly and forcefully by al-Ghazzâlî: “The knowledge about (ma- rifah) God is… — Franz Rosenthal Human knowledge Copy Share Image
“An ignorant man is forgiven seventy sins, before one sin is forgiven to the person who possesses knowledge. Evil actions should not… — Franz Rosenthal Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“According to the Prophet, the four blemishes of knowledge are boasting of one’s knowledge and feeling superior on account of it to… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“The primeval “pen,” for instance, is light, and the writing on the well- guarded tablet is a light of God, as the… — Franz Rosenthal Darkness Copy Share Image
“Knowledge means true leadership. Honor paid to a man because of his wealth or his power ought not to please him, because… — Franz Rosenthal Honor Copy Share Image
“1. “Knowledge is that through whose existence he in whom it subsists is enabled to act in an orderly fashion and to… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Knowledge,” which for al-Qônawî is never very far from Sufi gnosis, is “an abstract universal reality,” or “a single universal reality.” In… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Ash-Shâfi i paid no attention to a slave girl given to him by friends who wants to sleep with him. Abû Hanîfah,… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Buzurjmihr esteems knowledge more highly than wealth, with reference to the anecdote cited below, According to the hadîth, flattery is permissible only… — Franz Rosenthal Keeping silent Copy Share Image
“Umar b. al-Khattâb contributes the rather resigned insight that men are never as jealous of knowledge as they are of their wives.… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“The Misbâh has chapters on “knowledge” (- ilm, ch. 62), “certain knowledge” ( yaqîn, ch. 88), “wisdom” (hikmah, ch. 99), and “ignorance”… — Franz Rosenthal Fear Copy Share Image
“And it is said that each one of the numerous “stations” on the mystic path has a light of its own, and… — Franz Rosenthal Inner light Copy Share Image
“Among the conventional adab anthologies, we encounter a somewhat different organization of the traditional material in the Kitâb Adab ad- dunyâ wa-d-dîn… — Franz Rosenthal Character Copy Share Image
“Its insistence upon “knowledge” has no doubt made medieval Muslim civi lization one of great scholarly and scientifi c productivity, and through… — Franz Rosenthal Islam Copy Share Image
“Saying, I do not know,’ constitutes one half of knowledge” is both a Prophetical tradition and a saying found in Graeco-Arabic wisdom… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
