أعجزُ الناسِ من عجزَ عنِ اكتسابِ الإخوانِ، وأعجزُ منهُ من ضيّعَ من ظفرَ بهِ منهم.
The most helpless person is the person who cannot find brothers. More helpless still is the person who finds such brothers and then loses them.
أعجزُ الناسِ من عجزَ عنِ اكتسابِ الإخوانِ، وأعجزُ منهُ من ضيّعَ من ظفرَ بهِ منهم.
The most helpless person is the person who cannot find brothers. More helpless still is the person who finds such brothers and then loses them.
These quotes come from Alone with the Alone, a 264-page bilingual hardcover of 113 quotes from Ali Ibn Abi Talib, with footnotes and an afterword.
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