“Take patience as your pillow, hug poverty, discard lusts, oppose your desires and know that you are seen by God, so look at how you are.”

— Muhammad al-Taqi

Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 479
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ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism 811–835

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