What is worse for a person to fear for what is in his hand thieves hide it and enable his enemy from himself by revealing what is in his heart of his own secret or the secret of his brother, he was with me in Mecca, I think in the year five hundred and ninety-nine, a man from the people of Tunisia called Abd al-Salam ibn al-Sa`iriya, and he had a maidservant whom he bought in Egypt in distress. Which took place in Egypt in the year five hundred and ninety-seven, and he said to her, Oh, maidservant, I advise you to do two things: keeping the secret and being honest. The maidservant said what she needs, for I know that if a person is honest, he shares with people in their money, and if he keeps secrets, he shares their minds with them. Egypt, so he freed her and released her, so she returned to her mother and sisters, and Muawiyah, may God be pleased with him, said, I did not disclose my secret to anyone but that I was followed by length of regret and intense regret. And his counselor and minister, and he used to say, What you have been concealing from your enemy, do not appear to him. God knows best. Muawiyah wanted these words. Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Khalaf bin Saf al-Lakhmi, my teacher in the readings in his mosque at the bow of the bow from Seville, may God have mercy on him, used to seek us in most of his gatherings.
Beware your enemy once *** and warn your friend a thousand times
Perhaps the friend deserted *** and he was known to be harmful
My uncle, my father's brother, used to call me to the broker a lot
A time passes, a life passes, and an age deceives what is not easy
And a soul melts while they are deputizing *** and a world calls out that it is not free
And the
From the words of prophecy in the will, whoever conceals his secret, the best is in his hand, and whoever exposes himself to accusation, do not blame the one who thinks badly of him, and puts the matter of your brother in the best way, and do not think that a word that came out of him is equal. They are an adornment in prosperity and infallibility in calamity
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Abu al-Qasim al-Baja i told me in Marrakesh on the authority of Abu Abdullah al-Ghazal al-Arif, who was at Mariya one of the consorts of Abu Madyan, Abu Abdullah al-Hawari in Tennis, Abu Yazza, Abu Shuaib al-Sari, Abu al-Fadl al-Yashkari, Abu al-Naga and that class. He does not speak, does not ask, and does not accompany one of the group. If the sheikh finished speaking, he leaves, and we never see him except in the gathering in particular, and something happened to me from him and I fell in awe of him, so I wanted to get to know him and know his place, so I followed him on the evening of a day after we separated from the Sheikh's assembly from where he did not He felt me, so when he was in some of the city s railways, if a person had pounced on him from the air with a loaf in his hand, he handed it to him and left. He is the king of livelihood. He comes to me from God every day with what has been decreed for me from the livelihood where I was from the land of my Lord, and God has been kind to me in the beginning of my matter and my entry into this way. I need it from food, so spend from it, and when it is finished, it will come to me The same is from God, but I did not see a person who said in the name of Mary, the daughter of Imran, whenever Zakaria entered the mihrab for her, he found food with her.
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Inviolability in taking away a blessing Ziyad bin Umayyah passed by Al-Hira and looked at a monastery and said to his servant, Who is this? He said, Deir Harqa bint Al-Nu man bin Al-Mundhir. He said, Lead us to him. We hear her words. So she came and stood behind the door. The sun has risen on us, and there is no one on earth dearer than us, and as long as that sun sets, our enemy has mercy on us.