Alone with the Alone

Quote No. 84 from Ali Ibn Abi Talib

On the World and Its Illusions

الغنى في الغربةِ وطنٌ، والفقرُ في الوطنِ غربة.

Wealth turns a strange land into a homeland. Poverty turns a homeland into a strange land.

No. 84

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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