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• “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

• “[Bai Juyi] utilized Confucianism to order his conduct, utilized Buddhism to cleanse his mind, and then utilized history, paintings, mountains, rivers, wine, music and song to soothe his spirit.”

  Bai Juyi (772–846) said by 846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Composition for his own tomb inscription, as quoted in Lin Yutang's The Importance of Living (1940), p. 411

• “Ahi, ahi! tu giaci nelle braccia della polvere; la gelosia consuma il mio cuore. || Datti pace, perocch'io non posso più riscaldarmi nel mondo per l'amore e il piacere. (citato in Cesare Cantù, Aron al-Rascid, p. 700, Biografie per corredo alla storia universale, Volume I)”

  Hārūn al-Rashīd (766–809) said by 809 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Così generale era la decadenza della cultura in Inghilterra che vi erano ben pochi al di qua della Manica in grado di comprendere le funzioni religiose o di tradurre una lettera dal latino in inglese; ed io credo che non ve ne fossero molti, neppure al di là della Manica.”

  Alfredo il Grande (849–899) said by 899 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Repentance is attained by the saints with the Divine grace and it comes from the side of God who enlightens the hearts of those whom He loves. Seeking a formal forgiveness is the sin for lying. If I seek repentance of my self, I shall have need of repentance again.”

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

• “Anche il massimo dell'onore e della gloria, e tanto potere da avere in mano le sorti di un regno, agli occhi di un vero saggio, sono solo vicende da formicaio.”

  Li Gongzuo (778–848) said by 848 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Cento montagne e non un uccello, mille sentieri e non un'impronta | Una barchetta, un mantello di bambù, | un vecchio pescatore | sulla nevosa riva del fiume.”

  Liu Zongyuan (773–819) said by 819 at the latest wikiquote:it, 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)

• “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.

• “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 offensive that there should be seen in the outward appearance of man more humility than what is in his heart.”

  Al-Fudayl ibn 'Iyad (725–803) said by 803 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.”

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

  Recorded in: Fi’l-falsafa al-ula ("On First Philosophy") in M. A. Abu Rida (ed.) Rasa’ il al-Kindi al-falsafiyya (Cairo, 1950), p. 103; trans. R. Walzer in Greek into Arabic (Oxford, 1962), p. 12; reported in Albert Hourani, A Histo…

• “No, tu ti pentirai, se Dio ti perdonerà.”

  Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya (710–801) said by 801 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Quapropter potius animam curare memento, quam carnem, quoniam haec manet, illa perit”

  Alcuin (740–804) said by 804 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sending the Buddha in search of the Buddha, grasping the mind with the mind, they may exhaust themselves in striving for an entire eon but will never get it. They do not understand that if they cease their thoughts and end their thinking, the Buddha will automatically be present.”

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

• “One man stands head and shoulders above his contemporary scholars: head and shoulders, some hold, above the Middle Ages: John Scotus Erigena.”

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

  Recorded in: Helen Waddell The Wandering Scholars (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1927] 1954) pp. 77-78.

• “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

• “The Sufi's love to God goes with God's love towards him. Sufis are folk who have preferred God to everything, so that God has preferred them to everything.”

  Dhul-Nun al-Misri (796–861) said by 861 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

• “Tree jobs are very difficult to perform: generosity in poverty; truthfulness in the state of fear; piety in solitude.”

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