How do I stop caring what people think?
Ibn al-Qayyim wrote that the servant of others is enslaved to the many; the servant of Allah is freed to one. The scholars traced the step-by-step way out of the tyranny of being seen.
1 passages from 1 book in the library
The classical approach.
These passages are drawn from 1 book by Ibn Battuta — part of the classical Sunni tradition that carries over a thousand years of reflection on the Qurʾān, the authentic Sunnah, and the consensus of the early community. Nothing below is a paraphrase. The words are the scholars' own, translated from the original Arabic manuscripts.
14th century · Tangier, Morocco
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"Eventually, the Sultan released Kasa, and his cousin's daughters congratulated her on her freedom, decorating her as per the custom."
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