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A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF INDIA VOL.5 : KHALIQ, AHMED NIZAMI : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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quote of Quss b. Sa’idah:
https://archive.org/details/e3jaz-baqillani/page/n343/mode/1up?view=theater
ghazali: you need to let your mind walk free.
or, aql requires it, etc.
“walking inevitably takes on a narrative quality.”
Sorkin, Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
The Ambling Mind
related to Ghazali quote about letting the aql walk free
“Don’t rely on your books lest you become like the People of Scripture,” because then you become susceptible to distortion. - Ibrahim al Nakha’i
Knowledge stored in books is physically separated from people, but when stored in oneself, is practiced and humanized.
al muwatta’ means the well-trodden path - shamsy’s notes on writing transforming thought
Regarding the hadith on time passing faster:
“Al-Nawawi said: what is meant by its becoming short is that there will be no barakah in it, and that the benefit that a person gets from one day, for example, will be the equivalent of the benefit that he used to get in a single hour.
Al-Haafiz said: The fact of the matter is that what it means is that
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