Malik ibn Anas famous quotes

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He who practices Tasawwuf without learning Sacred Law corrupts his faith, while he who learns Sacred Law without practicing Tasawwuf corrupts himself. Only he who combines the two proves true.
-- Malik ibn Anas

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Knowledge is not to be taken from four types of people: a foolish person who openly acts foolish, even if he reports the most narrations; an adherent of bid'ah who calls to his desires; a person who lies, even if I don't accuse him of lying in hadith; and a righteous pious worshiper who does not accurately retain what he narrates.
-- Malik ibn Anas

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Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it
-- Malik ibn Anas

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Seek the fellowship of those who enjoy fellowship with the Lord
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul
Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.
When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.
The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.
The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.
After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

Malik ibn Anas famous quotes

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