Ibrahim Ben Adham

Ibrahim ben Adham (d. 777) was a prince of Balkh and Sufi mystic convert. He became an ascetic Sufi saint. He was figures in numerous Sufi legends apparently patterned after the story of Buddha.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Say not "tomorrow" or "the day after tomorrow" : for those that perished , perished because they abode always in their hopes, until the truth came upon them suddenly in their heedlessness; and willful as they were, they were carried to their dark, narrow graves, abandoned by all their kith and kin.

Al-Jahiz