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Shall I tell thee any more? I replied, 'Assuredly; and he continued, 'Be thou of the world that is, heedless; and of the world to come, greediest. Be truthful in all thy dealings, and thou shalt be saved with the Salvationists. Then he went on and I asked about him and was told that he was the Imam Al-Shafi'i.
O Allah, before whom the hearts of the wise abase themselves, O Allah, of Thy bene ficence accord to me the remission of my sins, adorn me with the curtain of Thy protection and pardon me my shortcomings, by the magnanimity of Thy Being! Then I rose and went away. Quoth one of the pious, 'When I entered Baghdad, Al-Shafi'i was there.
Al-Shafi'i was wont to remark, 'I love to see folk profit by this learning of mine, on condition that nothing of it be attributed to me." And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say. When it was the Eighty-fourth Night, When the Caliph's messenger came with the money, he went in to the Imam and accosted him, but he would not speak to him.
It is said that the Imam al-Shafi'i departed the night into three portions, the first for study, the second for sleep and the third for prayer. One
Al-Rabi a relates that Al-Shafi'i used to recite the whole Koran seventy times during the month of Ramazan, and that in his daily prayers.
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