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• “After this with kingly energy and determination, he girded up his loins for a war of religion, and invaded Hindustan, and carried away many prisoners of war and other plunder; and in every country, which he conquered, he founded mosques, and he endeavoured to ruin and desolate the territories of Raja Jaipal who, at that time, was the ruler of Hindustan.”

  Sabuktigin (942–997) said by 997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Tabaqat-i-Akbari translated by B. De, Calcutta, 1973, Vol. I, p. 3.

• “[[w:Debal|Debal[[ is remarkable for the richness of its grain cultivation, but it is not over-abundant in large trees or the date tree. It is famous for the manufacture of swords. The inhabitants generally maintain themselves by their commerce.”

  Ibn Hawqal (943–978) said by 978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Οὐ βασιλικὴ δορυφορία καὶ ἐξουσία, οὐ τῆς ἐξουσίας δυναστεία καὶ περιουσία, οὐ τῆς περιουσίας ἐπίδειξις καὶ ἀπόλαυσις, οὐδὲν ὅσα τῶν ἐν ἀνθρώ-ποις ἐφετῶν καὶ τιμίων τὴν ἡμετέραν οὕτως εὐφραίνει βασιλείαν ὡς ἡ τῶν ὑπηκόων εἰρήνη καὶ εὐημερία καὶ τῶν πολιτικῶν πραγμάτων ἡ δι' αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὸ κρεῖττον κατάστασίς τε καὶ ἐπανόρθωσις.”

  Leo VI the Wise (866–912) said by 912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Prologue, sect. 2 (tr. George Dennis, 2010)

• “Éala Éarendel engla beorhtast ofer middangeard monnum sended.”

  Cynewulf (900–900) said by 900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Crist", as translated by Humphrey Carpenter in Tolkien: A Biography (1977), p. 64

• “Omoitsutsu Nureba ya hito no Mietsuramu Yume to shiriseba Samezaramashi wo”

  Ono no Komachi (825–900) said by 900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Gnosis truly, is a light which God casts into the heart. True knowledge of God is gained when the lover comes in contact with the Beloved through secret communion with Him.”

  Abu Talib al-Makki (died 996) said by 996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The doctor's aim is to do good, even to our enemies, so much more to our friends, and my profession forbids us to do harm to our kindred, as it is instituted for the benefit and welfare of the human race, and God imposed on physicians the oath not to compose mortiferous remedies.”

  Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (866–925) said by 925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My wish it is that you should always provide the destitute with food.”

  Æthelstan (895–939) said by 939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Ordinance Relating to Charities, quoted in Tom Holland, Athelstan: The Making of England (2016), p. 71

• “Though Divine knowledge transcends all thoughts and symbols, yet the mystic's sincere meditation discovers the Ultimare Truth.”

  Muhammad ibn Abd al-Jabbar ibn al-Hasan al-Niffari (901–977) said by 977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If you [Muslims] are under their [infidels] authority, fearing for yourselves, behave loyally to them, with your tongue, while harboring inner animosity for them. Allah has forbidden believers from being friendly or on intimate terms with the infidels in place of believers except when infidels are above them [in authority]. In such a scenario, let them act friendly towards them.”

  Al-Tabari (839–922) said by 922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: About Quran 3.28. Tafsir, quoted in The critical qur’an: explained from key islamic commentaries and contemporary historical research. (2021). . Bombardier Books.

• “Intellectual knowledge is ordinary, limited to the human faculties. It deals with the finite objects of the world of the creation of God; it is not concerned with the Creator. Gnosis (Marifat) is higher knowledge and directly deals with the Creator and the Divine Attributes. It is a gift of God.”

  Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi (950–990) said by 990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “DeCormenin, Louis Marie; Gihon, James L (C.E.1857). A Complete History of the Popes of Rome, from Saint Peter, the First Bishop to Pius the Ninth.”

  Pope John XII (937–964) said by 964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Gnosis (Marifat) is fire and faith light, gnosis is ecstasy and faith a gift. He differentiates between the believer and gnostic saying that the believer sees by the light of God and the gnostic sees by means of God Himself, and the believer has a heart, but the gnostic has no heart.”

  Abu Nasr as-Sarraj (died 988) said by 988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A Muslim is a person who has dedicated his worship exclusively to God, for just as we say in Arabic that something is ‘salima’ to a person, meaning that it became solely his own, so in the same way ‘Islām’ means making one's religion and faith God's alone.”

  Ibn al-Anbari (884–940) said by 940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In Al-Fakhr al-Rāzī's Commentary on the Qur'an, I, p. 432, Cairo, 1318/1900. As quoted in Abdel Haleem Mahmud, The Creed of Islam (1978), p. 13.

• “الخَيْلُ وَاللّيْلُ وَالبَيْداءُ تَعرِفُني وَالسّيفُ وَالرّمحُ والقرْطاسُ وَالقَلَمُ”

  Al-Mutanabbi (915–965) said by 965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “泽国江山入战图， 生民何计乐樵苏； 凭君莫话封侯事， 一将功成万骨枯。”

  Ts'ao Sung (830–902) said by 902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As translated by in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (London: Constable & Co., Ltd., 1918)

  Also quoted by: 曹松 (zh)

• “A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts.”

  Al-Farabi (870–951) said by 951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: H. Gibb et al., eds., "Mazalim", The Dictionary of Islam vol. IV (Leiden: Brill, 1991)

• “Excess of knowledge does not make one great scholar, rather savant is that, who acting on his knowledge adheres to Sunnah may amount of his knowledge be little.”

  Ibrahim Khawas (died 904) said by 904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sahl bin Abi Umamah bin Sahl bin Hunaif narrated from his father, from his grandfather, that the Messenger of Allah said: Whoever asks Allah, the mighty and Sublime, sincerely for martyrdom, Allah will cause him to reach the status of the martyrs even of he dies in his bed.”

  Al-Nasa'i (829–915) said by 915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Amongst the kings of Sind and Hind none treats the Muslims who are established in their domains with more distinction than the Ballahara.”

  Al-Masudi (896–957) said by 957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source