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A Persian poet says: افتادگی آموز اگر طالب فیضیهرگز نخورد آب زمینی که بلند است '𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀...

Qatadah said: "I memorise everything I hear and I never forget what I memorise." Turning to his servant, he then said: "Boy, bring me my sandals..." The servant said: "They are on your feet." قال ...

Today, the bird eats insects ... Tomorrow, the insects eat the bird ... Never be arrogant in life, the fortunes of time constantly change! نن مرغۍ حشرات خوري سبا حشرات مرغۍ خوري غرور مه کوه هرڅه یو...

The famous Pashtun poet Abdur-Rahman-Baba says in a poem: ژوندی ځان په زمکه ښخ که لکه تخم. که لوئی غواړی دخاورو په مقام شه Meaning: Be humble & down to earth, lower yourself to the ground like a seed , and you will rise ... ...

A mosquito said to a tree: "Remain firm, for I wish to fly away and leave you!" The tree said: "I did not even feel your landing, so how will I feel your leaving?" قالتِ البعوضةُ للنخلةِ : تماسكي ، فإني أريدُ أنْ أطير وأدَعَكِ قالتِ النخلةُ : واللهِ...

If you are young and think you know it all - remember the proverb: سترى إذ انجلى الغبار أفرس تحتك أم حمار "You will see, when the dust clears, whether beneath you was a horse or a donkey."...

A man tried to talk to Ma'mun (المأمون - an Abbasid ruler), but Ma'mun did not pay any attention to him. The man said: "God stopped Prophet Solaiman to listen to an ant. I'm not less than an ant, and you are not more than So...

Abu Uthman was passing through an alley and someone threw ashes at him from one of the roofs. His companions became angry and started to rebuke those people. Abu Uthman said to them: "Don't say anything, a pe...

What Imam Dhahabi - الذهبي - said about himself ... He was a very humble scholar, despite being a giant in knowledge. He added a tiny biography of himself in one of his books, described himself as Shafi'ii in Madhab and said about himself: جمع توا...

Imam Al-Qurtubi mentions in his Tafsir (1/443): وقيل : إن إبليس عبد الله تعالى ثمانين ألف سنة "And it was said: Satan worshipped God for 80,000 years." He went from hero to zero ... So don't become arrogant with y...