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يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِن تَنصُرُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ يَنصُرْكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَكُمْ
“O believers, lend your strength to God's cause — and He shall be your fortress, your footing made firm.”
الخاصيةُ التي للإنسانِ هي إدراكُ المعاني الكليةِ المجردةِ عن المادةِ... ومن ذلك إدراكُ ذاتِهِ لذاتِهِ
“Man’s true essence lies in grasping the timeless truths beyond the physical realm... and in that awakening, the soul finally beholds itself.”
العِلمُ إِمّا عِلمُ الأَديانِ وَإِمّا عِلمُ الأَبدان
“Knowledge is either knowledge of religions or knowledge of bodies.”
سِرِ الدَّهرُ حَتّى تَعلَمَ القَدرَ حَقَّهُ فَكَم مِن مَليكٍ أَضحَكَ الدَّهرُ ثُمَّ أَبكى
“Walk with time until you truly know its weight — how many a king did time first make laugh, then weep.”
إِنَّما يَنجَحُ الصَّبورُ وَيَحظى وَرُبَّما طالَ في الأَمورِ الأَناة
“Only the patient one succeeds and prospers; sometimes in all matters deliberateness takes long.”
وَقَد أَفنَيتُ عُمري في طِلابٍ فَلَم أَظفَر بِغَيرِ العِلمِ شَيئا
“I spent my life in pursuit, and gained nothing beyond knowledge itself.”
رَأَيتُ العَقلَ ذا صَبرٍ وَحِلمٍ وَرَأَيتُ الجَهلَ يَطغى وَيَثور
“I found reason endowed with patience and forbearance, and I found ignorance violent and raging.”
وَما العَيشُ إِلّا غَفلَةٌ بَعدَ غَفلَةٍ يَمُرُّ بِها الإِنسانُ حَتّى يُغيَّبا
“Life is nothing but one heedlessness after another, through which a person passes until he is buried.”
فَيا مَوتُ زُر إِنَّ الحَياةَ ذَميمةٌ وَإِنّي عَلى أُنسٍ بِكَ لَحَبيب
“O death, come visit, for life is contemptible — and truly I am fond of your company.”
ضَحِكنا وَكانَ الضَّحكُ مِنّا سَفاهةً وَداعي البُكاءِ الدَّهرُ وَالعُمرُ مُنهَلّ
“We laughed, and laughter was our folly; weeping is more fitting — for time erodes all and life spills away.”
تَعَبٌ كُلُّها الحَياةُ فَما أَعجَبُ إِلّا مِن راغِبٍ في ازدِياد
“All of life is weariness — I marvel only at one who desires more of it.”
المَحَبَّةُ لا تُعطي إِلّا نَفسَها، وَلا تَأخُذُ إِلّا مِن نَفسِها
“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.”
لَيسَ مِن يَكتُبُ بِالحِبرِ كَمَن يَكتُبُ بِدَمِ القَلب
“One who writes with ink is not like one who writes with their heart's blood.”
الشَّكُّ أَلَمٌ في غايَةِ الوَحدَةِ لا يَعرِفُ أَنَّ اليَقينَ هُوَ تَوأَمُه
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
بَينَ ما نَنطِقُ بِهِ وَبَينَ ما نَقصِدُه، هُناكَ بَحارٌ مِن الصَّمت
“Between what is spoken and what is meant, there are seas of silence.”
المَحَبَّةُ هيَ الزَّهرَةُ الوَحيدَةُ التي تَنبُتُ وَتُورِقُ بِغَيرِ مَعُونَةِ الفُصول
“Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.”
لا تَطلُب المَجدَ إِن لَم تَستَطِع حَمَلَ مَشَقَّتِهِ فَالمَجدُ في التَّعَب
“Do not seek glory if you cannot bear its hardship, for glory lies within toil.”
هَذا ما جَنَتهُ يَدايَ وَكَفى وَلَيسَ عَلى اللهِ بِمُستَنكَر
“This is what my own hands have wrought — enough; and it is not to be wondered at from God.”
وَفي الجَهلِ قَبلَ المَوتِ مَوتٌ لِأَهلِهِ وَأَجسادُهُم قَبلَ القُبورِ قُبور
“In ignorance before death there is a death for its people — their bodies are graves before the graves.”
وَإِنّي وَإِن كُنتُ الأَخيرَ زَمانُهُ لَآتٍ بِما لَم تَستَطِعهُ الأَوائِل
“Though I am the last in time, I shall bring what the ancients could not.”
نِم نَومَةً لا تَقومُ مِنها فَعُمرُ الإِنسانِ نَومٌ وَيَقظَة
“Sleep a sleep you do not wake from — for a man's life is sleep and waking.”