Alone with the Alone

Quote No. 40 from Ali Ibn Abi Talib

On Knowledge and Speech

الحكمةُ ضالّةُ المؤمنِ، فخذِ الحكمةَ ولو من أهلِ النفاق.

Wisdom is the believer’s stray. Accept it even if it’s from the duplicitous.

No. 40

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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