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Be a stranger or a traveller

Friday, January 4, 1963

كُنْ فِي الدُّنْيَا كَأَنَّكَ غَرِيبٌ أَوْ عَابِرُ سَبِيلٍ

Transliteration

Kun fi-d-dunya ka-annaka gharibun aw abiru sabil.

Translation

Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveller on the road.

Narrated by Abdullah ibn Umar·Sahih al-Bukhari 6416·Nawawi's Forty · #40

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