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Everything besides Allah passes

Tuesday, December 10, 1907

أَصْدَقُ كَلِمَةٍ قَالَهَا الشَّاعِرُ كَلِمَةُ لَبِيدٍ: أَلَا كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مَا خَلَا اللَّهَ بَاطِلٌ

Transliteration

Asdaqu kalimatin qalaha-sh-sha'iru kalimatu Labid: ala kullu shay'in ma khala-llaha batil.

Translation

The truest word a poet ever said is the word of Labid: Indeed, everything besides Allah is perishing.

Narrated by Abu Hurayrah·Sahih al-Bukhari 3841, Sahih Muslim 2256

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