Lysander Keprta

“We do not serve God through a blind obedience to what we think is the law. We serve God through a perceptive examination of our understanding of the presumptions of the law. A precedent is there to guide, not to blind. A precedent points us towards the right direction, but it cannot become an obstruction to God’s way.”
― Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books

“Give a man love and he will trade his crown for a kiss. Break a man's heart and he will raise empires from the ashes of his pain. Affection makes a man soft. Betrayal sharpens him into steel. When he is adored, he lives for another. When he is abandoned, he lives for himself. Love chains a man to comfort, but heartbreak hurls him into war with destiny itself, for every scar he carries becomes a lesson, and every betrayal plants the seed of strategy. A broken man is dangerous, for he no longer fears loss, he is already lost. His tears dry into fire. His silence hardens into strategy, and his wounds become maps that guide him to power. Remember this: kingdoms are not built by the satisfied, but by the forsaken. The man who survives heartbreak does not merely recover. He returns as a conqueror, demanding the world that once denied him.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“What I do know, as a matter of certainty, is that we choose our own reality. We choose to descend into the mundane or elevate to the ethereal.”
― Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books

“But is it not a husband who will provide you with a stable and happy life - it is God.”
― Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books