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I assure (you) before my Lord, that he who begs without neediness, will some day begs out of neediness.
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Muhammad al-Hur al-Aamili, Was?'il al-Sh?‘ah, vol.6, p.305

 

Ali Zayn al-Abidin

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Her reasoning is full of tricks
And butterfly suggestions,
I know no point to which she sticks;
She begs the simplest questions,
And, when her premises are strong
She always draws her inference wrong.

 

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