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• “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

• “Turning to God with the deep of the heart is much better than tiring the organs.”

  Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) said by 835 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The most pious of people is the one who fulfills his religious precepts, and the most devout of the people is the one who avoids illegitimate acts.”

  Hasan al-Askari (845–874) said by 874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “सत्य की कोई भाषा नहीं है। भाषा तो केवल मनुष्य द्वारा बनाई गई है। लेकिन सत्य मनुष्य का निर्माण नहीं, आविष्कार है। सत्य को बनाना या प्रमाणित नहीं करना पड़ता।”

  आदि शंकराचार्य (788–820) said by 820 at the latest wikiquote:hi, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I so detached my heart from the world and cut short my hopes that for thirty years now I have performed each prayer as though it were my last and I were praying the prayer of farewell.”

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

  Recorded in: as quoted in Early Islamic Mysticism (New York: Paulist Press: 1996), p. 165

• “Unless the servant erects an iron-wall around his baser self, he cannot taste relish of his worship.”

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

• “If I ask Him to receive me, Will He say me nay? Not till earth, and not till heaven Pass away.”

  Stephen the Hymnographer (725–802) said by 802 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 153.

• “A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.”

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

  Recorded in: The Wan Ling Record of Xiu Pei, quoted in Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen — Advaita — Tantra (2003) by Wei Wu Wei

• “He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.”

  Alfred the Great (849–899) said by 899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The first station of trust in God is that servant be between the hands of God exactly as the dead body is between the hands of the one who washes the dead.”

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

• “Knowledge of the Divine Attributes or Godhead is the most perfect knowledge since it is realized through the soul's communion with God.”

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

• “He said to the effect that no knowledge of Islam can be gained from books of Kalam, as kalam is not from knowledge and that "It is better for a man to spend his whole life doing whatever Allah has prohibited - besides shirk with Allah - rather than spending his whole life involved in kalam.”

  Al-Shafi‘i (767–820) said by 820 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The book is silent as long as you need silence, eloquent whenever you want discourse. He never interrupts you if you are engaged but if you feel lonely he will be a good companion. He is a friend who never deceives or falters you, and he is a companion who does not grow tired of you.”

  Al-Jahiz (775–869) said by 869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The worst punishment from God is the separation from Him.”

  Sari al-Saqati (772–867) said by 867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Say to the followers of innovation (Bidʻah): the judge between us and you is the day of funerals.”

  Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780–855) said by 855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The first essential in chemistry is that you should perform practical work and conduct experiments, for he who performs not practical work nor makes experiments will never attain to the least degree of mastery. But you, O my son, do experiment's so that you may acquire knowledge. Scientists delight not in abundance of material; they rejoice only in the excellence of their experimental methods.”

  Jabir ibn Hayyan (721–815) said by 815 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted by , Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists (2008) p. 163.

• “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.

• “हमें शाश्वत सत्यों को ग्रहण करने और उस पर अमल करने की क्षमता दो, हमें स्वयं दो ताकि हम तुम्हारे द्वारा पिता और पुत्र को देख सकें।”

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

• “About solitude, he says: when night comes I become happy that I am alone, and I become one with God, without separation; when morning comes I get grieved on account of my disgust with the appearance of those who enter and disturb me in my loneliness.”

  Al-Fudayl ibn 'Iyad (725–803) said by 803 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

• “We ought not to be ashamed of appreciating the truth and of acquiring it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. For the seeker of truth nothing takes precedence over the truth.”

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

  Recorded in: Ibid., trans. Alfred L. Ivry, Al-Kindi's Metaphysics (SUNY Press, 1978) p. 58

• “Abu Dawud 1:142 - "Do not beat your wife as you beat your slave-girl”

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

• “In an ebullient exchange with the Baghdadi singing-girl ‘Inan he wrote: "Gorgeous one! – God has made your face a qibla for me, /So allow me to pray toward your face, and lets have a kiss." Here "kiss" (qubla) and "the direction of prayer" (qibla) are made to rhyme, an almost inevitable rhyming couplet.”

  Abu Nuwas (756–814) said by 814 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Philip F. Kennedy, Abu Nuwas: A Genius of Poetry (2005)