I advise you…to mix little with the people, since before when people met they would benefit from each other. But today that has gone…

—Sufyan ath-Thawri [d. 163H]

(Read on pg 30 Shaikh Ahmad Zamzami, The Bad Consequences of the Tongue. Jam’iat Ihyaa’ Minhaaj al-Sunnah. Ipswich: 2002.)