“I wonder at him who shows haughtiness and vainglory, while he was as a sperm yesterday and will be a carrion tomorrow.”

— Ali Zayn al-Abidin

Balāghat al-Imām Zayn al-‘Ābidīn, p. 27 ; Mirza Muhammad Taqi Lisan al-Mulk Sipihr, Nāsikh al-Tawārikh, vol.1, p. 484.

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Great-grandson of the Prophet Muhammad 659–713

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