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In that moment and for that audience, the story of the Qurʾanic prophet was no longer a tale from a faraway past, depicted in a foreign language of an old and exotic scripture, or in a seemingly neutral translation by a foreign Muslim
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“I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.”
― Up from Slavery
― Up from Slavery
“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.”
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“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity”
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“There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
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“The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.”
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Bilal’s 2024 Year in Books
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