He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.
Interpretation
Neglecting nightly prayers can lead to restless and unfulfilling nights.
This quote emphasizes the significance of spiritual practice, particularly the night prayer, in achieving a peaceful state of mind and a sound sleep. It suggests that those who overlook their spiritual duties may find themselves unsettled both in sleep and in life.
In practice
During a motivational speech about the importance of routine and rituals.
I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but did not find a better dress than piety. I thought about all types of wealth, but did not find a better wealth than contentment in little. I thought of all types of good deeds, but did not find a better deed than offering good advice. I looked at all types of sustenance, but did not find a better sustenance than patience.
Do not be fooled by one who recites the QurΓ’n. His recitation is but speech β but look to those who act according to it.
Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.
The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.
Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.
Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.
So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.
He was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second. He did this because there is a saying in the Neverland, that everytime you breathe, a grown-up dies; and Peter was killing them of vindictively as fast as possible.
The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.
The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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