“To what extent you can, avoid bad deeds, even if everybody takes you as the agent of bad deeds.”

— Ali Zayn al-Abidin

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 161.
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Ali Zayn al-Abidin 11

Great-grandson of the Prophet Muhammad 659–713

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