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• “I endured afflictions and sowrrow When death took Haylanah to itself. I parted from my happiness when I lost her And care not now what it may be. She was my world: and when she sank Into her grave, I parted from my world. Verily people have multiplied, but I Behold no creature after her. By Allah, I shall not forget thee As long as the wind shaketh the boughs on the upland.”

  Harun al-Rashid (766–809) said by 809 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[The master] entered the hall and said: Rather than the hundred varieties of erudition, to be without seeking is primary. A religious person is someone who does nothing and is truly without the numerous types of mind. There is also no meaning that can be preached. There’s nothing else, so you may go.”

  Huangbo Xiyun (800–855) said by 855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A Muslim will never get tired and bored of educating himself throughout his life.”

  Ali al-Rida (770–818) said by 818 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Abu Wa'il narrated: "Ali said to Abu Al-Hayyaj Al-Asadi: 'I am dispatching you with what the Prophet dispatched me: "That you not leave an elevated grave without leveling it, nor an image without erasing it.”

  Al-Tirmidhi (825–892) said by 892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is evident that Bhoja had the reputation of a strong ruler, able to maintain peace in his kingdom and defend it against Muslim aggression and left this task as a sacred legacy to his succession. He was undoubtedly one of the outstanding political figure of India in ninth century and ranks with Dhruva and Dharmpala as a great general and empire builder.”

  Mihira Bhoja (836–885) said by 885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Trust in God is that the heart lives with Allah Most High without other attachment. He also said Trust in God is the state of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and earning is his Sunnah. So whoever maintains his state will never abandon his Sunnah.”

  Sahl al-Tustari (818–896) said by 896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Then Muhammad, son of Kasim, went to old Brahmanabad, two parasangs f rom Mansura, which town indeed did not then exist, its site being a forest. The remnant of the army of Dahir rallied at Brahmanabad and resistance being made, Muhammad was obliged to resort to force, when eight, or as some say, twenty-six thousand men were put to the sword. He left a prefect there. The place is now in ruins.”

  Al-Baladhuri (820–892) said by 892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Quae rara sub isto Axe videre soles, aliis in partibus horum Copia tanta iacet, quantam vilissima tecum Efficiunt; rursus quaedam quae spreta videntur Forte tibi, magno mercantur ditia regna, Altera ut alterius potiatur foenore tellus, Orbis et in toto per partes una domus sit.”

  Walafrid Strabo (808–849) said by 849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Take care that none of them escapes.”

  Charlemagne (742–814) said by 814 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz). Referring to conspirators against Pope Leo III.

• “On appelle philosophie première la science de la Cause première, étant donné que tout le contenu de la philosophie est inclus dans la science qu'on a de la Cause première et qu'ainsi elle est première par la noblesse, première par le genre, première par le rang du point de vue de ce qui est scientifiquement le plus certain, et première par le temps puisque la Cause première est la cause du temps.”

  Al-Kindi (801–873) said by 873 at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبَادَةَ الْوَاسِطِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ، - يَعْنِي ابْنَ هَارُونَ - أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جُحَادَةَ، عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ الْعَوْفِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏"‏ أَفْضَلُ الْجِهَادِ كَلِمَةُ عَدْلٍ عِنْدَ سُلْطَانٍ جَائِرٍ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ أَوْ ‏"‏ أَمِيرٍ جَائِرٍ ‏"‏ ‏.‏”

  Sunan Abi Dawud (817–888) said by 888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Aut lego vel scribo, doceo scrutorve sophiam, obsecro celsithronum nocte dieque meum, vescor, poto libens, rithmizans invoco Musas, dormisco stertens oro Deum vigilans. Conscia mens scelerum deflet peccamina vitae: parcite vos misero, Christe Maria, viro.”

  Sedulius Scottus (801–875) said by 875 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Translated by James Carney, in Robert McNally (ed.) Old Ireland (New York: Fordham University Press, 1965) p. 250. Other translations: Helen Waddell, Medieval Latin Lyrics (London: Constable & Co, 1929) p. 123 · George …

• “Seclusion is the soul's ideal preparation for reaching God. It is in the state of solitude that the soul contemplates on the attributes of God.”

  Rabia of Basra (710–801) said by 801 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Only the people of Divine realization are His chosen servants. These are the blest souls whom no body knows except God nor anyone respect them.”

  Bishr the Barefoot (767–842) said by 842 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it.”

  Bayazid Bastami (804–848) said by 848 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in James Fadiman and Robert Frager, eds., Essential Sufism (Castle Books, 1998, , p. 37.

• “Cum ergo audimus, Deum omnia facere, nil aliud debemus intelligere, quam Deum in omnibus esse, hoc est, essentiam omnium subsistere.”

  John Scotus Eriugena (800–877) said by 877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: De Divisione Naturae, Bk. 1, ch. 72; translation from Hugh Fraser Stewart Boethius: An Essay (London: William Blackwood, 1891) p. 255.

• “There are three things which a man in bound to practice. Whosoever neglects any one of them must need neglect them all, and whosoever cleaves to any one of them much needs cleave to them all. Strive therefore, to understand, and consider heedfully.”

  Shaqiq al-Balkhi (died 810) said by 810 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A victory at which Heaven threw wide its gates, which Earth put on new dress to celebrate: O battle of Amorium, from which our hopes returned engorged with milk and honey, The Muslims hast thou fixed in the ascendant, pagans and pagandom fixed in decline!”

  Abu Tammam (804–846) said by 846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Ode on the Conquest of Amorium", ll. 12-14, translated by Julia Bray (2000) p. 50

• “The gnostic is the knower without knowledge, without sight, without information without apprehension, without description, without manifestation and without veil. If they are in themselves at all, they exist but in God, Their actions are held by God and their words are the words of God uttered by their tongues and their sight is the sight of God penetrated into their eyes.”

  Dhul-Nun al-Misri (796–861) said by 861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Brahma satyam jagat mithyam, jivo brahmaiva naparah”

  Adi Shankara (788–820) said by 820 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Perhaps I shall survive, perhaps not. I have been known as the commander. Wherever I am present or am mentioned, I am the king.”

  Babak Khorramdin (798–838) said by 838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source