“By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher ranks and closeness by virtue of your hidden good deeds. And know that these two ranks, one cancels out the other.”
“Rank is a paycheck. Respect is earned. If you find yourself reminding people of your rank, then you are just a paycheck.”
“They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.”
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“The possible ranks higher than the actual.”
“I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.”