Shafi Quotes

#1. We watched the field exercises first and then sat in on a class by. Shafi Khan on classic attack formations. It was a lucid talk with ample diagrams and case-studies.

Kiran Nagarkar

#2. Knowledge is not what is memorised.
Knowledge is what benefits.

Al-Shafi'i

#3. Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.

Al-Shafi'i

#4. We both laugh. And it feels good. A release. Like laughing at a funeral. Maybe inappropriate, but definitely needed.

Jay Asher

#5. To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.

Al-Shafi'i

#6. You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Fred Allen

#7. ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken instructions ... nothing.

Chuck Israels

#9. Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

George Crabbe

#10. How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

Al-Shafi'i

#11. To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

Al-Shafi'i

#12. I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation,
So he instructed me to abandon disobedience;
He informed me that knowledge is a light,
And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.

Al-Shafi'i

#13. There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.

Al-Shafi'i

#14. Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.

Al-Shafi'i

#15. The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.

Al-Shafi'i

#16. Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

Al-Shafi'i

#17. Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.

Al-Shafi'i

#18. Grammar is nothing
But a slave-master of words:
Unchain your language!

Noel Shafi

#19. You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.

Al-Shafi'i

#20. All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.

Al-Shafi'i

#21. Make big commitments, keep them, and never offer reasons when you don't make things happen.

Brian Klemmer

#22. The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him. If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.

Al-Shafi'i

#23. When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow
I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening and an escape
My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness
I found Your forgiveness to be greater

Al-Shafi'i

#24. For example, advocates are frequently asked, When will we (finally) become a colorblind society? The pursuit of colorblindness makes people impatient. With courage, we should respond: Hopefully never. Or if those words are too difficult to utter, then say: "Not in the foreseeable future.

Michelle Alexander

#25. There's something about his eyes in the photo. A kind of mystery. His personality comes through. It's always hung on my walls and I've given it to many people as a present. (On his iconic photo of Che Guevara)

Alberto Korda

#26. The ultimate sign of maturity is knowing just how immature you really are.

Mohammad Shafi Qureshi

#27. We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self.

Marya Hornbacher

#28. My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

Al-Shafi'i

#29. Secondly, I've always harbored a deep fear of appearing to be selfish or self-centered. Finally,

Nate Terrell

#30. Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. I've done some crazy stuff in my time and yet I can feel infinitely alive curled up on a sofa reading a book. So, what makes me feel alive? I guess it's realizing I am part of the world around me.

Benedict Cumberbatch