"sayings" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to a saying or proverb. For example, "My grandmother always had a saying for every situation; it was like she had an answer for everything."
At the moment, she says, the prevailing trend in Islam stresses the violent sayings of Muhammad, dating from his stay in Medina, over the peaceful ones issued earlier in Mecca.
"ONE of my favourite old Kentucky sayings is there's no education in the second kick of a mule," says Senator Mitch McConnell, with the homespun wisdom of a man facing re-election shortly.
The three sayings of Mr Ando became a philosophy of life:Peace will come when people have food.
Over hadiths, sayings about Muhammad's life, there is flexibility; some can be weeded out as unsound or outdated.
Reforming Islam from within might work, but not if every word of the Koran and the sayings of the Prophet is sacrosanct.
The evidence from the hadith (the Prophet's sayings) and renowned scholars that Islam is a religion of the sword is "so profuse that only a heretic would argue otherwise", claims the most recent issue of Dabiq, the magazine of Islamic State (IS).
One of Carnahan's favourite sayings, "Don't let the fire go out"—revealed during Robin Carnahan's tribute to her father at his funeral became the rallying cry of the campaign.
One of his favourite Buddhist sayings is that "your enemy is your best teacher".
One of the most common sayings nowadays is tidak jalan: things are not moving.
So far his MPs, normally a mutinous lot, have done little more than mutter to themselves about the rumness of some of his sayings.
The Hadith (the sayings of Muhammad) exhort believers to seek knowledge, "even as far as China".These scholars' achievements are increasingly celebrated.
