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“Many historians regard him [Offa] as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. In the 780s he extended his power over most of Southern England. One of the most remarkable extantfrom King Offa's reign is a gold coin that is kept in the British Museum. On one side, it carries the inscription Offa Rex (Offa the King). But, turn it over and you are in for a surprise, for in badly copied Arabic are the words La Illaha Illa Allah ('There is no god but Allah alone'). This coin is a copy of an Abbasid dinarfrom the reign of Al-Mansur, dating to 773, and was most probably used by Anglo-Saxon traders. It would have been known even in Anglo-Saxon England that Islamic gold dinars were the most important coinage in the world at that time and Offa's coin looked enough like the original that it would have been readily accepted abroad.”
Jim Al-Khalili
“History proves beyond any possibility of doubt that no religion has ever given a stimulus to scientific progress comparable to that of Islam. The encouragement which learning and scientific research received from Islamic theology resulted in the splendid cultural achievements in the days of the Umayyads and Abbasids and the Arab rule in Sicily and Spain. I do not mention this in order that we might boast of those glorious memories at a time when the Islamic world has forsaken its own traditions and reverted to spiritual blindness and intellectual poverty. We have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realize that it was the negligence of the Muslims and not any deficiency in the teachings of Islam that caused our present decay. Islam has never been a barrier to progress and science. It appreciates the intellectual activities of man to such a degree as to place him above the angels. No other religion ever went so far in asserting the dominance of reason and, consequently, of learning, above all other manifestations of human life.”
Muhammad Asad, Islam at the Crossroads“The eyelids of the burdened clouds let fall cascadesOf rain, and the parterred garden is spattered with drops.”
Abdullah Ibn al-Mu'tazz, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets“Death and parting are the same.”
Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets“You're given the fruit of one palm tree:Bear it a basin of clear water.Don't trouble with the plight of other palms.”
Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets“Some people are like an open grave:You give it the thing you love mostAnd then get nothing in return.”
Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets“Good men's actions are naturalWhile a scoundrel's charityIs carefully planned to please.”
Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets“Hold tight to what is most yourself,Don't squander it, don't let your lifeBe governed by what disturbs you.”
Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets“When men shake hands with time, time crushesThem like tumblers; little pieces of glass.”
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