Day: July 26, 2021
Double Faced
A proverb: ياكل مع الذيب ويبكي مع الراعي 'To eat with the wolf, and to cry with the shepherd.' It's like the English proverb: 'To run with the hare and to hunt with the hounds.' It applies to double-faced hypocrites....
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'Mother's supplications, are breezes of Paradise...' ماں کی دعا جنت کی هوا 'Maa ki Dua Jannat ki Hawa' It is said that a caravan was trying to cross a fierce river on a dark night, but every time they failed. An elder said: 'Let a boy, whose mother ...
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Zamakhshari was once asked about his 'madhab', and he wrote the following poem: إذا سألوا عن مذهبي لم أبح بــه *** وأكتمــه ، كــتمانــه لــي أسـلــــمُ فإن حنفيا قلــت ، قالــوا بأننـــي *** أبيح الطلا وهو الشراب المحـــرمُ وإن مالكيا قلــت ، قالــ...
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