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• “The doctrine of Tawhid is; "God is One, Alone, Single, Eternal, Everlasting, Knowing, Powerful, Living, Hearing, Seeing, Strong, Mighty, Majestic, Great, Generous. He is qualified with attributes wherewith he has named Himself. There is no Eternal but He, and no god beside Him; that He is neither body nor shape nor form nor person, nor element, nor accident.”

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

• “Patience is adherence to the ordinance of the Book (Quran) and the Sunnah.”

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

• “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.

• “Daqiqi has chosen four qualities of all good and evil things in the world: Ruby-colored lips and the sound of the lute. Old red wine and the Zoroastrian religion!”

  Daqiqi (1000–977) said by 977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Stewart, Sarah: The Zoroastrian Flame: Exploring Religion, History and Tradition, 2016

• “«La ambición es la llave que abre las puertas a la inquietud, y la acémila que nos trae las contrariedades».”

  Abu Bakr al-Zubaydi (928–989) said by 989 at the latest wikiquote:es, 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.

• “Hito ni awamu Tsuki no naki yo wa Omoiokite Mune hashiri hi ni Kokoro yakeori”

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

• “He acts without contact, instructs without meeting, guides without pointing. Desires do not conflict with Him, thoughts do not mingle with Him: His essence is without qualification (takyeef), His action without effort (takleef).”

  Mansur Al-Hallaj (858–922) said by 922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: On Allah (God), as quoted in Doctrine of Sufis (1977) by Abû Bakr al- Kalâbâdî, as translated by A. J. Arberry, Ch. 5 p. 16

• “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

• “We have been dealt a situation from which there is no escape. You have seen what Muhammad has done. Arabs have submitted to him and we do not have the strength to fight. You know that no herd is safe from him. And no one even dares go outside for fear of being terrorized.”

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

• “Mann, Horace K. (C.E.1910). The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages, Vol. IV: The Popes in the Days of Feudal Anarchy, 891-999.”

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

• “Recollection of God leades to the conversion of human qualities into the Divine Attributes.”

  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

• “O Lord! Increase light within me and give me light and illuminate me.”

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

• “It was narrated from An-Nu'man bin Bashir that the Prophet said, concerning a man who had intercourse with his wife's slave woman: "If she let him do that, I will flog him with one hundred stripes , and if she did not let him, I will stone him (to death).”

  Al-Nasa'i (829–915) said by 915 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

• “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)

• “إذا رَأيْتَ نُيُوبَ اللّيْثِ بارِزَةً فَلا تَظُنّنّ أنّ اللّيْثَ يَبْتَسِمُ”

  Al-Mutanabbi (915–965) said by 965 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

• “Bliss within the burghs, when I burst forth with a cadenced song”

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

  Recorded in: Riddle IX, 'Riddle, The Nightingale', quoted by F. S. Flint, Preface, 'Otherworld Cadences', Poetry Bookshop, London, 1920

• “Laudes Christo redempti voce modulemur supplici ...”

  Notker the Stammerer (840–912) said by 912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Translated by R. F. Littledale, in Lyra Messianica (1864), p. 331; The People's Hymnal (1867), no. 116; Resurgit (1879), p. 42

• “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)