One youth, Yūsuf from Bukhara, asked, “O master, why record the lives of so many—caliphs, ascetics, even repentant sinners?”
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The shaykh smiled. “Because a nation forgets its light when it no longer knows the names of those who carried it.” One youth, Yūsuf from Bukhara, asked, “O master,