Cloud, rain wherever you please — your land tax will still find its way to me.

أيها السحاب أمطر حيث شئت فإن خراجك إلي

Harun al-Rashid

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Harun al-Rashid

Fifth Abbasid caliph (763-809). Founded Baghdad's House of Wisdom, traded ambassadors with Charlemagne, became the hero of One Thousand and One Nights — but his 803 Barmakid purge began the caliphate's disintegration.

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Harun al-Rashid's Other Quotes

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. From the Commander of the Faithful Harun al-Rashid to Nikephoros, dog of the Romans. You will not hear my reply — you will see it.

Seek knowledge, even as far as China.

Take whatever time gives you, and do not mourn what slips away.