“There are two qualities that no quality is over; the faith in God and the serving of brothers.”

—  Hasan al-Askari

[Baqir Shareef al-Qurashi, Abdullah al-Shahin, The Life of Imam Hasan al-'Askari, Wonderful short maxims, 2005]
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