A Pearl of Wisdom from Ibn Masʿūd Posted by writingblog Date March 11, 2020 Comments 0 comment Ibn Masʿūd said: إذا ظهر الزنا والربا في قرية أذن بهلاكها “When fornication and usury emerge in a town, this foreshadows its destruction.” (al-Mukhtār min Kalām al-Akhyār, 51) Share: writingblog Previous post Imām Ghazālī’s Wasīṭ March 11, 2020 Next post The Term “al-Imām al-Thālith” in Ḥanafī Fiqh Books March 12, 2020 You may also like Shāfiʿī Scholarship: Imam al-Muzanī 15 March, 2023 Shāfiʿī Scholarship: Imam al-Buwayṭī 6 March, 2023 A Brief Biography of Khalīfah ʿUmar bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz 5 March, 2023