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	<title>Sayings of the Salaf</title>
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		<title>The Blessings of Marriage according to the Sunnah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahyâ b. Yahyâ Al-NaysâbûrÎ reports:
I was once with Sufyân b. &#8216;Uyainah &#8211; Allah have mercy on him, when a man came to him and said, &#8220;O Abû Muhammad, I complain to you of so-and-so&#8221;, meaning his wife, &#8220;I am the lowest and most despicable thing to her.&#8221; [Sufyân] lowered his head for a few moments, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Drops of this World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Khâlid b. &#8216;Umayr Al-&#8217;Adawî reports, &#8216;Utbah b. Ghazwân – Allâh be pleased with him &#8211; once gave us a sermon. He praised Allâh, then said:
The life of this world has announced its departure and is quickly turning away, and nothing remains of it save the likes of the last drop of water in a vessel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>True Goodness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is reported that &#8216;Alî b. Abî Tâlib – Allâh be pleased with him – said:
Goodness is not in your wealth and offspring being plentiful; true goodness is when your [good] deeds are plenty and you have great understanding and forbearance, and when you compete to worship your Lord. If you do good you praise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sunnah v. what people do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is reported that &#8216;Abdullâh b. Al-Hasan used to often sit with Rabî&#8217;ah. One day they were revising and studying various practices from the Sunnah when a man in the gathering said, &#8220;[But] this is not what is practiced [by the people].&#8221; &#8216;Abdullah said, &#8220;So if the ignorant become so numerous that they become the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Complete Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imâm Al-Buwaytî – Allâh have mercy on him – reports:
I heard Al-Shâfi’î say, “A man does not become complete in this life except when he has four [qualities]: religiousness (al-diyânah), trustworthiness (al-amânah), safeguarding [from sin] (al-siyânah) and sobriety (al-razânah).”
Al-Bayhaqî, Manâqib Al-Shâfi’î 2:189.


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Intelligence in Action
Secret Devotion
An advice at death about direction [...]]]></description>
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