“Kings exercise control over people, and scholars exercise control over kings.” — Franz Rosenthal Fitness Copy Share Image
“The difference of opinions alone makes a person aware of possible mistakes of his teacher.” — Franz Rosenthal Education Copy Share Image
“Your knowledge belongs to your spirit. Your wealth belongs to your body.” — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“A man remains knowing as long as he searches for knowledge and continues to study. When he thinks he knows, he has… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“God’s love is earned by a man through being a scholar and at the same time behaving as inconspicuously and modestly as… — Franz Rosenthal God Copy Share Image
“1. “Knowledge is an attribute (sifah) through which ignorance, doubt, or conjecturing is removed from him who is alive.”129” — Franz Rosenthal Ignorance Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is the arrival (wusûl ) of the soul at the meaning (manâ) of a thing.” Qinâlîzâdeh, who considers this the best… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Among the four things a noble person need not be ashamed of is serving a scholar in order to learn from him.… — Franz Rosenthal Scholar Copy Share Image
“A book of the Indians (that is, Kalîlah wa-Dimnah) teaches that a scholar’s knowledge accompanies him and provides for him wherever he… — Franz Rosenthal Book Copy Share Image
“The knowledge scholars possess causes them to act. Eventually, they will be sought after by the people, but as true scholars, they… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Love of what is good and useful, and hatred of what is ugly or evil and harmful are the conditions for success.… — Franz Rosenthal Business Copy Share Image
“At the peak of human gnosis, man’s knowledge of God may appear associated with the love of God. An early Sufi is… — Franz Rosenthal God Copy Share Image
“He cites Ibn as-Sîd al-Batalyawsî (d. 521/1127) to the effect that the higher the station is which a person reaches in the… — Franz Rosenthal Life Copy Share Image
“Knowledge without action is like a bow without a string.” A relationship as close as blood relationship must be established between knowledge… — Franz Rosenthal Blood relation Copy Share Image
“The Messiah (Jesus) says: “God shows the greatest hatred for a scholar who loves to be remembered when being abroad, who is… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“The proper respect to be shown to scholars is described by Alî in detail. He is credited with the constantly repeated statement… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge 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
“As far as the praise of knowledge is concerned, al-Askarî otherwise restricts himself to some of the more ordinary statements, such as… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge 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
“Knowledge is that which the soul desires.”136 8. “Knowledge is the falling of the soul (’s sight)137 upon that which is concealed… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“In Arabic linguistic usage, we are told, the interpretation of “water” as knowledge is confirmed by the common fi gure of speech… — Franz Rosenthal Communication Copy Share Image
“At the end of time, there will be scholars who will not practice what they preach. They will preach abstention from this… — Franz Rosenthal End of time Copy Share Image
“Ibn Hazm subjects to his critique the four views concern- ing the sources of knowledge, that is, that all knowledge is derived… — Franz Rosenthal Blind trust Copy Share Image
“Nobility of birth was held in the lowest esteem of all the material advantages. It was certainly deemed by far less valuable… — Franz Rosenthal Ignorance Copy Share Image
“Further, a discerning and discriminating person must realize that a man who possesses knowledge is nobler in every conceivable respect than a… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“The educational element in the adab discussion of knowledge is unmistakable in a monograph entitled “The Encouragement of Seeking and Being Eager… — Franz Rosenthal Education Copy Share Image
“An apparently old and often cited dictum extolling the superiority of scholars over statesmen was attributed to the legendary grammarian of the… — Franz Rosenthal Political power 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
“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
“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
“Al-Ghazzâlî expectedly takes a rather different approach in the preliminaries of his standard work on the principles of jurispru- dence, the Mustasfâ.… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“1. “Knowledge is the revelation (tajallî ) of things themselves.”130 Note the use of the verb tajallâ in D-10. 2. “Knowledge is… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“The all-sustaining power of knowledge is captured in the simile of knowledge being food for the soul. Various versions of it are… — Franz Rosenthal Food and drink Copy Share Image
“Al-Askarî gives examples of the high esteem shown to scholars and the important position in society they occupy, often in spite of… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“13. “Knowledge stands for the arrival (husûl ) in the soul of some concept (ma- na) in a way that does not… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Their concept of knowledge was eloquently expressed, for instance, by Muâdh b. Jabal (d. 18/639, one of the trusted lieutenants of the… — Franz Rosenthal Education Copy Share Image
“The search for knowledge demands foregoing the pleasures of companionship, but this is usually understood to mean frivolous and unprofi table human… — Franz Rosenthal Friendship 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
“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
