Alone with the Alone

Quote No. 44 from Ali Ibn Abi Talib

On Knowledge and Speech

هلكَ خُزّانُ الأموالِ وهم أحياءٌ، والعلماءُ باقونَ ما بقيَ الدهرُ. أعيانُهم مفقودةٌ وأمثالُهم في القلوبِ موجودة.

The keepers of wealth are dead though they live, while the learned live on as long as time remains. Their bodies vanish, but their likeness lives on in hearts.

No. 44

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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