Abdullah Ibn Mubarak Quotes

#1. I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.

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#2. We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

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#3. O man! Prepare yourself for the Hereafter, obey Allah to the extent of your need for Him and anger Him to the extent of your patience in Hell.

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#4. Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.

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#5. I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I'm not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.

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#6. I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge ...

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#7. The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

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#8. Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great

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#9. How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

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#10. If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds

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#11. If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.

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