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“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
“Chamberlin, Russell (C.E.2003). The Bad Popes. Sutton Publishing. pp. 955–963.”
Pope John XII (937–964) said by 964 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
“Ibn 'Abbas said: "The Messenger of Allah [SAW] said: 'Whoever changes his religion, kill him.'”
Al-Nasa'i (829–915) said by 915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“传闻一战百神愁，两岸强兵过未休。 谁道沧江总无事，近来长共血争流。”
曹松 (830–902) said by 902 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God loves only those who are not concerned with anything else.”
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
“罰酌令醉冷，空矢惡持平。納尊欲墮水，唯咲劣音聲。”
村上天皇 (926–967) said by 967 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“浪湧住江岸，更深夜靜時。相逢唯夢中，猶恐為人知。”
藤原敏行 (died 907) said by 907 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“仰望筑波山，飛泉落九天。相思積歲月，早已化深潭。”
陽成天皇 (869–949) said by 949 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“今朝有酒今朝醉，明日愁來明日愁。”
羅隱 (833–910) said by 910 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“爾俸爾祿，民膏民脂。下民易虐，上天難欺。”
宋太宗 (939–997) said by 997 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By the following Friday, Mansur had dealt with thirty thousand Muslims who had been paying the jizyah and eighty thousand polytheists who had been exempted from the jizyah. He imposed the jizyah on the polytheists and removed it from the Muslims.”
Al-Tabari (839–922) said by 922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement about Mansur b. Umar b. Abi al-Kharqa , as quoted in The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS (2018), Robert Spencer, ch 3.
“The reason why Multán is designated "the boundary of the house of gold" is, that the Muhammadans, though poor at the time they conquered the place, enriched themselves by the gold which they found in it.”
Ibn Hawqal (943–978) said by 978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“故五峰頍然為其冠珥，是溪蔚然涵其濃英之氣。”
司空圖 (836–908) said by 908 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I saw my Lord with the eye of my heart. He said, "Who are you?" I said, "I am You." You are He Who fills all place But place does not know where You are. In my subsistence is my annihilation; In my annihilation, I remain You.”
Mansur Al-Hallaj (858–922) said by 922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis (1978) by Steven T. Katz, p. 92; four centuries later the Christian mystic Meister Eckhart would make a very similar assertion: "The eye with which I see God is the same with which G…
“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
“He does not come. Tonight in the dark of the moon I wake wanting him. My breasts heave and blaze. My heart chars.”
Ono no Komachi (825–900) said by 900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When Jaipál had marched to a great distance and thought that the demand upon him had relaxed, his evil disposition his evil disposition prompted him to break his engagements, and his folly made him beget enemity, insomuch as he imprisoned those who accompanied him on the part of the Amír, in reprisal for those of his relations the Amír had taken as hostages.”
Sabuktigin (942–997) said by 997 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.
“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
“悠悠羈旅客，問君可曾知。故園梅花發，幽香似舊時。”
紀貫之 (866–945) said by 945 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source