Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become…

Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of…

— Zach Wamp

“Words that promote hate, destruction and chaos are tilted toward the dark core of existence.”

— Lee Vickers

To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

— Umar

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two…

— Nils Kjaer

Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their…

— Robertson Davies

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has…

— Annia Ciezadlo

Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself!

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

The Taliban has a huge leadership problem at a critical political moment, another caliph has announced himself to the world, and the Taliban has…

— Graeme Smith

Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been…

— John Bagot Glubb

...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are…

— Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov

To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib