Ibn Hazm Quotes

#1. I have a sickness doctors can't cure,
Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction,
Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her love,
Eager, like the drunk gulping wine mixed with poison,
Shameless were those my nights,
Yet my soul loved them beyond all passion.

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#2. There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter; [They are] that you bear what you dislike if it is beloved to Allah and you leave what you like if it is disliked by Allah.

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#3. One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.

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#4. Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.

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#5. Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.

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#6. When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.

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#7. If your pride leads you to boast,
you will be doubly guilty,
because your intelligence will have shown
that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

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#8. We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?

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#9. If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.

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#10. Glad-tidings to he who knows his own faults more than other people know it.

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#11. Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy of criticism. The first are those who care nothing for the pleasures of the world and the second (i.e. those who are deserving of criticism) care nothing for haya or modesty.

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#12. No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

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#13. What indicates a person's weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.

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#14. And though the years before I die
Stretch out interminably, I
Shall only count my life in truth
As that brief hour of happy youth.

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#15. Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.

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#16. Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.

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