Caliphs Quotes - Page 3

• Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

  Abu Bakr

  World, Loan, Indolence

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• O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

  Abu Bakr

  Work, Men, Trying

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• Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

  Abu Bakr

  Evil, Protect You, Be Good

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• He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

  Abu Bakr

  Praying, Protection, Protected

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• Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

  Abu Bakr

  Anger, Greed, Lust

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• To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

  Abu Bakr

  Fighting, Self, Evil

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• Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

  Abu Bakr

  Eye, Humanity, Looks

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• At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps with which he marked the books. One said: 'Does not agree with the Koran - heretic, must be burned'. The other said: 'Agrees with the Koran - superfluous, must be burned'.

  Nils Kjaer

  Book, Two, Egypt

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• The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

  Abu Bakr

  Honesty, Truth Is, Truth And Falsehood

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• Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their darlings, or to amaze people with their possessions. They keep their prized books hidden away in a secret spot to which they resort stealthily, like a Caliph visiting his harem, or a church elder sneaking into a bar. To be a book collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope-fiend with those of a miser.

  Robertson Davies

  Real, Book, Dope

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• The Taliban has a huge leadership problem at a critical political moment, another caliph has announced himself to the world, and the Taliban has been silent. And that is getting noticed by militants across South Asia.

  Graeme Smith

  Leadership, Political, World

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• There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Song, Drinking, Book

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• ...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures.

  Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov

  Character, Independent, Islam

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• There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

  Abu Bakr

  Humility, Greatness, Contentment

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