"Learn from Ali how to fight without your ego participating. God's lion did nothing that didn't originate from his deep center."
— Coleman Barks

January 1, 1970

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"Ali in Battle" an account of Ali ibn Abi Talib's explanation as to why he declined to kill someone who had spit in his face as Ali was defeating him in battle, in Ch. 20: In Baghdad dreaming of Cairo