Abū ʿAbdullāh Muhammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī (AD 767-820) founded one of the four orthodox schools of Sunni Muslim jurisprudence. (Wikimedia Commons)
“Don’t allow your tongue to utter the fault of another person, because you are covered in faults and everyone else has tongues, too. Don’t allow your eyes to fall on the faults of others. Turn your eyes away and say to your eyes, ‘Oh eyes, other people have eyes too.’”
Imam al-Shafi‘i
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