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This mosque in an-Najaf, Iraq, is widely considered by Shias to be the final burial place of ʿAlī
Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.
Ali

Source[edit]

  • Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Sharīf al-Raḍī (1995). Living & Dying with Grace: Counsels of Hadrat ʻAlī. Translated by Thomas F. Cleary. Shambhala. p. 52. ISBN 1570620652.