Umm Isa

“According to our faith, we're all created for a single reason, which is to worship Allah. One way to worship is how you handle hardship and dilemmas in your life. Life on this earth is a test for us, and we should expect anything, even the worst hardships, in our test. At the same time, nothing happens without Allah's permission; nothing moves without Allah's will. If we were at Guantánamo, He had willed it and we would leave when He willed it. But we had free will to choose our path while here.”
― Mansoor Adayfi, Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo

“In one instance, whilst in Sham (Greater Syria), he was writing down ahadith when his pen broke. He borrowed a pen from someone but when he finished writing, he forgot to give it back and hence he put it into his pen-holder. He then travelled and returned back to Marw (Central Asia, present day Turkmenistan) when he recognised the pen and realised that it was still with him! Without any hesitation, he immediately prepared himself for travel again in order to return the pen to its owner all the way in Sham.”
― Farhia Yahya, The Life of Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak: The Scholar of the East and the Scholar of the West

“Het Marokkaanse volk zal op een dag opstaan – waarschijnlijk binnenkort. Ze zullen de aanwezigheid van Franse en Spaanse troepen op Marokkaanse bodem niet tolereren.

— Emir Abdelkrim al-Khattabi (1957)”
― Yassin Akouh, Koloniale vloek: De relaties tussen de Marokkaanse staat en de Rif

“Better a dog of the Ait Atta, than Sultan under the French.’’

— Saying of the Middle Atlas”
― Carleton S. Coon, The Riffian