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Said in the 800s
“Envy destroys good deeds”
Ali al-Hadi (829–868) said by 868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to put out the fires of Hell, and burn down the rewards of Paradise. They block the way to Allah. I do not want to worship from fear of punishment or for the promise of reward, but simply for the love of Allah.”
Rabia of Basra (710–801) said by 801 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as quoted in Farid al-Din Attar, Memorial of the Friends of God (c. 1230, 2009 Translation edited by Losensky).
“כשקַר – קר, כשחם – חם.”
ג'ושו (778–897) said by 897 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“הרבה חטאין בכל מאודיך כי אל רחום וחנון בפניך." ~ עמוד 28”
אבו נוואס (756–814) said by 814 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not love the one who doesn’t love Allah. If they can leave Allah, they will leave you.”
Al-Shafi‘i (767–820) said by 820 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I, your Flaccus, am busy carrying out your wishes and instructions at St. Martin's, giving some the honey of the holy scriptures, making others drunk on the old wine of ancient learning.”
Alcuin (740–804) said by 804 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Charlemagne (796), as translated by Stephen Allott, Alcuin of York, c. A.D. 732 to 804: His Life and Letters (1974), p. 12
“Fear of God is king that dwells only in the heart of a pious one.”
Bishr the Barefoot (767–842) said by 842 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fathers and guardians, bishops of our Church, you ought to minister to the poor, or rather to Christ in them, and not to seek after vanities. But now you act quite contrary to this; and are vainglorious and avaricious beyond all other men.”
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)
“Poured from the palm of a girl dressed as boy An intrigue for one of any orientation She lifts the carafe against the black night Her face lit with brilliant radiation Sending from the jug’s lip a stream so bright That eyes, in its glare, close as in sedation Wine so fine, so pure and delicate To add water would be contamination With light alone may it be mixed Giving off dazzling illumination”
Abu Nuwas (756–814) said by 814 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be a master everywhere and wherever you stand is your true place. (Translator unsourced.)”
Linji Yixuan (850–867) said by 867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That fondness for science, … that affability and condescension which God shows to the learned, that promptitude with which he protects and supports them in the elucidation of obscurities and in the removal of difficulties, has encouraged me to compose a short work on calculating by al-jabr and al-muqabala , confining it to what is easiest and most useful in arithmetic.”
Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (780–850) said by 850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in: Victor J. Katz (2009) A history of mathematics: an introduction. p. 271
“[...] It is better to live for just a single day as a ruler than to live for forty years as an abject slave.”
Babak Khorramdin (798–838) said by 838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Al-Tabari
“Never think of anyone as inferior to you. Open the inner Eye and you will see the One Glory shining in all creatures.”
Dhul-Nun al-Misri (796–861) said by 861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Ellen Kei Hua, ed., Meditations of the Masters, cited in Andrea Wiebers and David Wiebers, Souls Like Ourselves (Rochester, MN: Sojourn Press, 2000), p. 42.
“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
“…Their idol of Zur was of gold, and its eyes were two rubies. The zealous Musalmans cut off its hands and plucked out its eyes, and then remarked to the Marzaban how powerless was his idol to do either good or evil…”
Al-Baladhuri (820–892) said by 892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.”
Huangbo Xiyun (800–855) said by 855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If a man lingers too long at home, it shows on his face—so travel and refresh it! People like the sun more, I know, for not shining upon them perpetually.”
Abu Tammam (804–846) said by 846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Life and Times of Abu Tammam (2015) by Abu Bakr al-Suli, edited and translated by Beatrice Gruendler
“Humbleness is a blessing that is not envied.”
Hasan al-Askari (845–874) said by 874 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.
“There is no choice but the Sunnah and following it. And analogy should only be based on comparing something to an established principle (a precedent from the time of the Prophet Muhammad). But to come to the principle and demolish it and then say this is by analogy - on what basis are you making your analogy?”
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780–855) said by 855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source