“Knowledgeable persons are strangers because of the many ignorant people around them.”

[Baqir Sharīf al-Qurashi, The life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad, Wonderful Maxims and Arts, 2005]

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ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism 811–835

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