"How often it is that a small action……" — Abdullah ibn Mubarak
"How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention."
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Abdullah ibn Mubarak
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10 Quotes by Abdullah ibn Mubarak
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The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
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I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.
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Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.
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We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of…
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I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people)…
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O man! Prepare yourself for the Hereafter, obey Allah to the extent of your need for Him and anger Him…
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I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge...
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If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.
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If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my…
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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