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that all may know you: Motto of Niagara University: ut omnes unum sint: That they all may be one: Motto of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, and the United Church of Canada: ut pictura poesis: as is painting so is poetry: quote most famously uttered in Horace's Ars Poetica meaning poetry deserves the same careful interpretation as ...
Al-Shakūr can be found in various ayat in the Quran. For example, it is found in verses 35:30, 35:34, 42:23, 64:17. Muslims tend to quote verse 2:261 when mentioning Allah's Generosity and Gratefulness, "The likeness of those who spend their wealth in Allah's way is as the likeness of a grain which grows seven ears, in every ear a hundred grains.
The first maxim, "Know thyself", has been called "by far the most significant of the three maxims, both in ancient and modern times". [14] In its earliest appearances in ancient literature, it was interpreted to mean that one should understand one's limitations and know one's place in the social scale. [15]
And you would best learn to know yourselves were you to consider what grounds you have for arrogance, that you should undertake to rule over us." [ 23 ] He then asks whether they think they are more just, or more courageous, or more intelligent than other men, indicating that to know oneself is to know one's worth in comparison to others.
Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit ("a man to a man is a wolf, not a man, when the other doesn't know of what character he is.") [4] lupus in fabula: the wolf in the story: With the meaning "speak of the wolf, and he will come"; from Terence's play Adelphoe. lupus non mordet lupum: a wolf does not bite a wolf
Some names are known from either the Qur’an or the hadith, while others can be found in both sources, although most are found in the Qur’an. [8] Additionally, Muslims also believe that there are more names of God besides those found in the Qur'an and hadith, and that God has kept knowledge of these names hidden with himself, and no one else ...
Below is an alphabetical list of widely used and repeated proverbial phrases. If known, their origins are noted. A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition.
A true name is a name of a thing or being that expresses, or is somehow identical to, its true nature.The notion that language, or some specific sacred language, refers to things by their true names has been central to philosophical study as well as various traditions of magic, religious invocation and mysticism since antiquity.