"His family life seems to have been happy, based on sincerity, respect, and love. Farid al-Din al-Attar relates that his children, asked how they knew if he were angry, replied that he used to treat them, on such occasions, with an affection which was even stronger than usual, but at the same time refrained from food and drink."
- From Dr. Muhammad Ibraheem Al-Geyoushi's "Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi: His Works and Thoughts," read in a post at Akram's Razor.
"Anger is like a ball of fire, but if you swallow it it's sweeter than honey."
- Sayyiduna 'Ali, radhi allahu anhu, clipped from a post by Salikah.
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter,
war spreading, families dying, the world in danger,
I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
- "February 2, 1968," a poem by Wendell Berry.
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