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# Abu Talib al-Makki

Abu Talib al-Makki, Muhammad ibn 'Ali (d. 996 CE) was a hadith scholar, Shafi'i jurist, and Sufi mystic.

## Quotes
### The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

* Patience is a true means for reaching God. In patience the soul rejoices spiritual bliss and kinship with the Beloved. This is stage when the seeker of God heartily welcomes afflictions which appear on the way to Him
** p. 86
* Patience has three stages; first, it means that the servant ceases to complain and this is the stage of repentances; second, he becomes satisfied with what is decreed, and this is the rank of the ascetic; third, he comes to love whatever his Lord does with him and this is the stage of the true friends of God.
** p. 86
* Asceticism concerns the soul for the next world. True asceticism means the thrusting out from the heart of all worldly thoughts reckoning them as vanity. It leads ultimately to friendship with God.
** p. 86
* Pure love of God illuminates the soul of the lover and the mysteries of His divinity are revealed by God when the vision of the Beloved is contemplated.
** p. 86
* Love leads to knowledge of the Divine mysteries and those who love abide in God and look to Him only, and He is nearer to them than all else and to them in given a vision of Him unveiled and they see Him with the eye of certainty.
** p. 86
* Gnosis truly, is a light which God casts into the heart. True knowledge of God is gained when the lover comes in contact with the Beloved through secret communion with Him.
** p. 86
* The servant does not attain to assurance of the doctrine of the Unity except by means of gnosis.
** p. 86
* Gnosis means the vision of God, for when the eyes of the soul is stripped of all the veils which hindered it from seeing God, then it beholds the reality of the Divine Attributes by its own inner light, which goes for beyond the light which is given to perfect faith, for gnosis belongs to a sphere quite other then that of faith. Hence, there is no distinction between love of God and knowledge of God.
** p. 86-87
* O Lord! Increase light within me and give me light and illuminate me.
** p. 87

## External links

* Muhammad Riaz Qadiri: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, Gujranwala, Pakistan, 2004
# Abu Nasr as-Sarraj

Abū Naṣr ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī al-Sarrāj (d. 988) was a Sunni sheikh and ascetic. He traveled widely in the Islamic world, having lived in cities as diverse as Cairo, Tabriz, Ramla, Baghdad, Damascus, Basra, and Nishapur. He is best known for his seminal Kitāb al-luma (Book of Light), which is considered an encyclopedia of the history of early Sufism.

## Quotes
### The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

* God reveals the truth behind the languages of the Quran to those whom He loves and who are true Sufis.
** p. 82
* Renunciation (Zuhd) is a noble station and it is the basis of all spiritual progress. It is the first step on the way to God. Without renunciation one cannot hope to make progress in this respect.
** p. 82
* Gnosis (Marifat) is fire and faith light, gnosis is ecstasy and faith a gift. He differentiates between the believer and gnostic saying that the believer sees by the light of God and the gnostic sees by means of God Himself, and the believer has a heart, but the gnostic has no heart.
** p. 82
* Gnosis (Marifat) is of three kinds: The gnosis of acceptance, the gnosis of reality and the gnosis of contemplation. And in the gnosis of contemplation, understanding and learning and explanation and disputation fade away.
** p. 82
* The Sufis are content with little in the way of worldly goods and are satisfied with the minimum of food to keep them alive; they limit themselves to the least that is necessary by way of clothing and bedding. They choose poverty rather than riches, embrace want and avoid plenty, prefer hunger to satisfaction and little to much. They renounce dignity and honour and rank, show compassion upon mankind and humility towards small and great.
** p. 82-83
* Lovers do not reach the height of true love until one says to the other, "O Thou who art I."
** p. 83
* Trust in God is the last station on the Divine Path for nothing remains to be attained through mystical efforts after having experienced spiritual satisfaction.
** p. 83
* Before the time of prayer comes, the servant must be in a state of preparation and his attitude must be that which is essential for prayer, namely a state of reflection and recollection, free from wandering thoughts and consideration or remembrance of anything save God alone. Those who enter in this way upon prayer with heart intent only upon God, will proceed from prayer to prayer in that same state of recollection and will remain in that state after they have ceased to pray.
* p. 83
* Humanity is not destroyed from men any more than blackness is destroyed from that which is black or whiteness from that which is white but that inborn qualities of humanity are converted and transformed by the all-powerful Light that is shed upon them from the Divine Realities. Those who inculcate the doctrine of Fana' mean the obliteration of one's own deeds and works of devotion through the continuance of regarding God as the doer of those deeds on behalf of His devotee.
** p. 83

## External links

* Muhammad Riaz Qadiri: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, Gujranwala, Pakistan, 2004
# Abu Taher

Abu Taher (Bengali: আবু তাহের) (14 November 1938 – 21 July 1976) was a Bengali military serviceman, who served in the Pakistan Army, and later in BDF. He crossed into India around early August and reported to the Indian authorities. After a week screening at Dehradun, India, Taher reported to Kolkata, Bangladesh Provincial government at 8 Theatre Rd. He was ordered to report to Sector 11 of Mukti Bahini under command of Major Ziaur Rahman, he became the sector commander after him. He served in BDF from end of August to 2 November 1971. He was awarded the medal Bir Uttom for his gallantry in the liberation war. He was released from military service by Indian military medical board in Pune, India after his leg was amputated. After independence, he was inducted into the Bangladesh Army for administrative retirement with legacy rank of lieutenant colonel. After settling in with family, the government of Bangladesh appointed him with employment at Kumilla. Later Taher turned into a political activist and leader of the left-wing Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal.

## Quotes

* In Bangladeshi textbooks, it is ironic that Saddam Hussain's name appears, but not Colonel Taher, a great hero of the War of Independence. Taher fell out with Mujib and was later hung by Zia, so neither of \he polarised groups claim him.
** Y Rosser, Indoctrinating Minds: Politics of Education in Bangladesh. 2004 page 147
# Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr

Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr or Abū Saʿīd Abū'l-Khayr (b. 7 December 967 — d. 12 January 1049) was a famous Persian Sufi and Poet who contributed extensively to the evolution of Sufi tradition.

## Quotes

* What sweeter than this in the world! Friend met friend and the lover joined his Beloved. That was all sorrow, this is all joy Those were all words, this is all reality.
* Love came and flew as blood in my veins Emptied me of myself and filled me with beloved. Each part of my being she conquered Now a mere name is left to me and the rest is she.

### The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

* The first step in Sufism is the breaking of inkpot and the tearing-up of books and the forgetting of all kinds of intellectual knowledge.
** p. 95
* Freedom from lower qualities is an essential qualification required for spiritual progress.
** p. 95
* If you wish that God should dwell in your heart, purify your heart from all save Him for the king will not enter a house filled with stores and furniture. He will only enter a heart which is empty of all save Himself.
** p. 96
* Take one step out of yourself that you may arrive at God.
** p. 96
* Hell is where you are and Paradise where you are not.
** p. 96
* Evil is thou', and the worst evil is thou', which thou knowest it not.
** p. 96
* There is nothing inside this coat except Allah.
** p. 97
* When I was a lion, panther was my prey; I caught everything which I hunted. When I came to embrace tightly love for you, A lame fox drove me from den.
** p. 97
* Through love we're slain, the world's our slaughter house We've no food nor sleep, the world's our cookhouse. We've no desire for paradise, because Our hell's a hundred times loftier than that.
** p. 97
* If you don not come to repent your existence, You'll never approach the circle of gnostics and drunkards Unless in other's eyes you become an infidel, In the creed of lovers, you'll never be Muslim.
** p. 98

## See also

* Sufism
* Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani

## External links

* Muhammad Riaz Qadiri: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, Gujranwala, Pakistan, 2004
# Abu al-Fath al-Busti

Abu'l-Fath Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hussain ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Busti, also known as Abu al-Fath al-Busti (942 – 1010) was a Persian secretary and famous poet of the Arabic and Persian language. He served in the chancery of the Ghaznavid Amirs Sabuktigin and his son and successor Mahmud of Ghazni.

## Quotes
### Poetry

* زيادة المرء في دنياه نقصان وربحه غير محض الخير خسران
** translation:
** A man's increase in worldly wealth doth ofttimes loss betide, And all his pains, save Virtue's gains, but swell the debit side.
** A Literary History of Persia, Vol. 2, p. 99

#### Stanza

* I counsel you, O Kings of Earth, to cease not Seeking good name for well-doing and right Spending your 'white' and 'red' to purchase honour, Which shall not wane with change of 'black' and 'white': These are the lasting spoils of Mahmud's prowess, Which spoils we share when we his praise indite.
** cited by Dawlat Shah, also quoted in A Literary History of Persia, Vol. 2, p. 99

## External links

* E. G. Browne: A Literary History of Persia, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 1964
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# Bates College

Bates College, originally the Maine State Seminary, was founded on 16 March 1855, in Lewiston, Maine, by Oren Burbank Cheney and prominent abolitionists as a Free Will Baptist institution. It afterwards secularized and established a liberal arts curriculum. Benjamin Bates had donated the vast majority of early donations and the Board of Trustees subsequently named the college after him. Historically known for its social inclusivity and academic rigor, it is the second oldest coeducational college in United States and the oldest in the Eastern United States.

## Quotes

* We do not propose an Academy, but a school of higher order, between a college and an Academy. We shall petition the state legislature to suitably endow, as well as incorporate, such an institution. We know our claim is good and intend openly and manfully and we trust in a Christian spirit to press it. If we fail next winter, we shall try another legislature. If we fail on a second trial, we shall try a third and a fourth.
** Oren Burbank Cheney, as quoted in The Story of the Life and Work of Oren B. Cheney (1907) by Emeline Burlingame-Cheney, p. 88
* I am familiar with the history of Bates College and acquainted with its officers. In the old times of bitter pro-slavery feeling the College gave earnest and effective support to the anti-slavery movement and was among the very first to open its doors to the colored man. Since then it has shown the same liberal spirit touching the equal education of women, being, I believe, the very first to graduate a woman from its classes
** Wendell Phillips, in a letter (3 December 1881), quoted in The Story of the Life and Work of Oren B. Cheney: Founder and First President of Bates College (1907), p. 200
* Bates embodies a powerful alchemy of the universal and the particular. The audacity of the intellectual project — to encompass knowledge across time and the world — invites our students to grapple with fundamental principles even as they hone their individuality. At the same time, our intimate scale creates a zone of care and concern that — when it works — produces graduates with ethical awareness and a commitment to serving purposes larger than themselves.
** Clayton Spencer, in her Inaugural Address as Bates President (26 October 2012)
* Amore ac Studio. I cannot send anything better than these words for the seal of your Institution. I once thought to have them cut on a seal of my own, but did not.
** Charles Sumner, on the latin motto "Love for Study", in a letter to Oren Cheney (11 December 1857), as quoted in "Editors' Portfolio", in Bates Student, Vol. 5, No. 4 (April 1877), p. 91

## External links

* Official website
* Faith by Their Works: Our Progressive Tradition (2005)
* College Athletics Website
* Flicker Commons: Bates College
# Bates Motel (TV series)

Bates Motel (2013–2017) is a pyschological horror drama thriller television series developed for television by Carlton Cuse. Kerry Ehrin and Anthony Cipriano and produced by Universal Television for the cable network A&E. The series, being a "contemporary prequel" to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho (based on Robert Bloch's novel of the same name), depicts the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in the film, albeit in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.
       Season 1
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       Season 4
       Season 5

## Cast

* Vera Farmiga - Norma Louise Bates/"Mother"
* Freddie Highmore - Norman Bates
* David Cuitt - Sam Bates
* Brittney Wilson - Lissa
* Zane Morgan
* Jodi Morgan
* Dickie Bolton
* Rebecca Hamilton
* Miss Blaire Watson
* Brooke Smith
* John Hainsworth
* Andrew Howard

## External links

* Official website
* Bates Motel (TV series) quotes at the Internet Movie Database
Psycho  (1959) · Psycho II  (1982) · Psycho House  (1990) :
| Films | Psycho (1960) · Psycho II (1983) · Psycho III (1986) · Psycho (1998) | Psycho (1960) · Psycho II (1983) · Psycho III (1986) · Psycho (1998) |
| Television | Films | Bates Motel (1987) · Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) |
| Television | Series | Bates Motel (2013–17) |
| Miscellaneous | Books | Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho (1990) · Robert Bloch's Psychos (1997) |
| Miscellaneous | Films | The Psycho Legacy (2010) · Hitchcock (2012) |
| Miscellaneous | Other | Psychopathy · Psychosis |
# Baten Kaitos series

Below are quotes from both games in the Baten Kaitos series, released for the Nintendo Gamecube.

## Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean

    Kalas: Mighty Sword, turn teardrops to terror and wreck havic! Sword Style: Water Blade!
    Xelha: Cast light upon the darkened earth. Save those lost in despair. Oh mighty ocean, guide us as we journey through the darkest pit of night. May time, ever fleeting, forgive us - we who have forsaken our song and buried our future.
    Xelha: Everyone lives with contradictions of some sort or another... The desire to be sincere and loyal to others and the urge to drop everything, lie back and care about nothing. We want to be free, but also want to stay secure. We want to protect someone dear to us, but at the same time, we simply want to abandon them. We want to live on, but also want to give up and die. Love, and hatred... Melodia and Kalas. If she is Malpercio's curse to the world, Kalas must be his prayer.

## Baten Kaitos Origins

    Lord Baelheit:Forgive me... Daimon. Now we shall never... see the end... of your... st... ory...
    What colour will your magnus be? Hm, hm, hm, hnn, hnn, hnn, hnn! Come! Be one with us!
    What's this, another heart on our plate? Hm hm hm...splendid. We'll devour you with the rest!
    You're all my slaves!
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# Anthony C. Yu

Anthony C. Yu (October 6, 1938 – May 12, 2015) was a scholar of literature and religion, eastern and western, best known for his four-volume translation of Journey to the West.

## Quotes

* At a time when officials of particular nations on earth are vying to vaunt the ability of their leadership or the merit of incomparable power even in the looming shadow of catastrophic conflict, the wisdom of the DDJ seems ever more compelling and urgent.
** Comparative Journeys: Essays on Literature and Religion East and West (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 'Reading the Daodejing', p. 277

### Rereading the Stone (1997)

    Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997), ISBN 978-0691015613
* For my students at the University of Chicago and in memoriam the Dead at Tiananmen Square June 4, 1989
** Dedication, p. v; quoted by John Minford in his essay In Memoriam (30 May 2015).
* [Cao Xueqin] has succeeded in turning the concept of world and life as dream into a subtle but powerful theory of fiction that he uses constantly to confound his reader's sense of reality.
** Ch. III, p. 141

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Anthony C. Yu on Wikipedia
# Anthony Cerdan Celino

Anthony Cerdan Celino (29 April 1972 –) is a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of El Paso.

## Quotes

* Being in the borderland is a wonderful thing. There's so much opportunity for ministries here.
** How are good bishops formed? Meet El Paso’s new auxiliary (29 March 2023) Catholic Extension Society