“Time wears out bodies, renews hopes, brings death nearer and takes away aspirations. Whoever gets anything from the world lives in anxiety for holding it and whoever loses anything passes his days grieving over the loss.”

— Ali , book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha

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cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad 601–661

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