The Hikam of Imam Ibnu Ata'illah al-Iskandari.

" Better to look at the defects hidden within you,
than to look for the unseen worlds that are veiled from you.

Better to keep the company of an ignorant man,
who is not satisfied with himself,
than a man of knowledge who is satisfied with himself.

What knowledge does the self-satisifed scholar have?
What ignorance does the ignorant man who is not self-satisfied have? "


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