Ahmed

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“(( لا ينبغي للذي يصلي في خلوته أن يظن نفسه منفردًا منعزلًا في موقفه .
كلا ، بل ليذكر أن عن يمينه وعن شماله ، ومن أمامه ومن خلفه ألوف الألوف من الصفوف ، في مشارق الأرض ومغاربها يشدون أزره ، ويؤيدونه في جوهر مطالبه ، إنهم معه يستقبلون قبلته ذاتها ، ويرددون مقالته عينها .
إنه ليس فيهم من يقول : " إياك أعبد وإياك أستعين " ، بل كلهم يقول : " إيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ"
ليس فيهم من يقول " " اهدني " ، بل كلهم يقول : " اهدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ "
ليس فيهم من يقول : " السلام عليّ ، بل كلهم يقول : " السلام علينا وعلى عباد الله الصالحين " . ))”
― محمد عبد الله دراز, نظرات في الإسلام

“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. I certainly wasn’t seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My home made education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London asking questions. One was, “What’s your alma mater?” I told him, “Books.” You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I’m not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X