He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.
Interpretation
Neglecting nightly prayers can lead to restless and unfulfilling nights.
This quote emphasizes the significance of spiritual practice, particularly the night prayer, in achieving a peaceful state of mind and a sound sleep. It suggests that those who overlook their spiritual duties may find themselves unsettled both in sleep and in life.
In practice
During a motivational speech about the importance of routine and rituals.
I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but did not find a better dress than piety. I thought about all types of wealth, but did not find a better wealth than contentment in little. I thought of all types of good deeds, but did not find a better deed than offering good advice. I looked at all types of sustenance, but did not find a better sustenance than patience.
Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.
Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.
The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.
Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.
Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.
Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
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