Minding What You Say
It is reported that Yūnus b. ʿUbayd – Allāh have mercy on him – said:
There is no one who is mindful of what he says except that you will see the good of it in the rest of his actions.
Ibn Abī Al-Dunyā, Al-Ṣamt wa Ādāb Al-Lisān article 60.
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