Alone with the Alone

Quote No. 65 from Ali Ibn Abi Talib

On Endurance and Patience

واللهِ لقد رقّعتُ مدرعتي هذهِ حتّى استحييتُ من راقعِها، فقالَ لي قائلٌ: ألا تنبذُها عنكَ؟ فقلتُ: اغرُب عنّي، فعندَ الصباحِ يُحمدُ القومُ السُّرى.

I have patched this garment of mine so many times I feel embarrassed taking it back to the mender. Someone said to me, “Will you not cast it aside?” I replied, “Leave me, for every day at dawn, it becomes clear who pressed on through the night.”

No. 65

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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