Al-Farabi > Quotes

“If boy would not fall in love, girl is not worthy of love.”
― Al-Farabi

“To accept something on mere presumption and, likewise, to fail to investigate it may cover over, blind, and lead astray.”
― Alfarabi, The Political Writings: "Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts (Agora Editions)

“Alfarabi first studied Islamic jurisprudence and music in Bukhara, then moved to Marv, where he began to study logic with a Nestorian Christian monk, Yūḥannā Ibn Haylān.”
― Alfarabi, The Political Writings: "Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts (Agora Editions)

“Olduğu gibi kalmayı tercih eden ve düşüncelerinde zanlarla yetinen, onlarla kanaat eden biri için mantık zorunlu değildir.”
― Fârâbî

“Widely referred to as “the second teacher,” that is, second after Aristotle, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ṭarkhān Ibn Awzalagh al-Fārābī (Alfarabi) is generally heralded as having founded political philosophy within the Islamic cultural tradition.”
― Alfarabi, The Political Writings: "Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts (Agora Editions)

“Prophetic Way
***
I do not write
Especially for anyone
I write
The emotions
The sorrows
The griefs
The pains
The failed love
The loneliness
And such sad results
Of those,
Who suffer from that
Though,
That looks like
As I express my feelings
In some extent
It is also the truth
I am among such ones
I am not a healer
Anyhow,
I try to heal
With all my efforts
That I own and hold
It is like a prophetic way
I have chosen
For Entire Humanity.”
― Al-Farabi