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Maqara Al-Katib said: I wanted to enter the city of Alexandria to fulfill some of my needs, and when I entered the city, a man I did not know met me outside […]
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Maqara Al-Katib said: I wanted to enter the city of Alexandria to fulfill some of my needs, and when I entered the city, a man I did not know met me outside […]
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Abba Daniel was once walking with his student on a road, and when they approached a place called Armon of Medina, he said to his student: “Go
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This is the chaste order beloved of the Lord: let a person’s eyes not wander here and there, let him look only ahead of him, and not speak.
Abba Youssef said to Abba Besir: “I cannot control my tongue.” The sheikh said: “If you speak, you will not feel comfortable.”
An old man said: “If you sit in your cell, do not be like a grave full of impurities, but be like a vessel full of precious gold.
A brother asked an old man: “O father, I desire to protect my heart.” The sheikh said to him: “How can you guard your heart and your mouth, which...
They talked about a free, chaste, and quiet virgin in her home. A bad young man fell in love with her, and he did not stop coming to her house. When the virgin felt
A chaste mouth speaks good things, pleases its owner, and brings joy to its listeners. He whose speech is orderly and chaste, and who is pure in his heart, is a son of the inheritance of Christ.
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Let the brother who stays with you be like a son and a disciple, and if he makes a mistake and spoils something, admonish him and reveal to him his mistake so that he does not return.
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It was said that one of the fathers was sitting in the distant prairie and was silent, and one day his student asked him, saying: “Why, father?”
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He also said: “If we loved God as we love our friends, we would be blessed, because I saw someone who grieved his friend, and he did not even find peace.”
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They mentioned about one of the brothers that he was next door to a distinguished sheikh, so he used to enter his cell every day and steal what he found.
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