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“Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.”
Ibn Taymiyyah, Diseases of the heart and their cures https://www.amazon.com/Diseases-Hearts-Their-Cures-Taymiyyah/dp/0953647633
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