Hemin Abdullah

“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“You were saying you wanted to open the people's eyes. All right, you just go and open old uncle Anagnosti's eyes for him! You saw how his wife had to behave before him, waiting for his orders, like a dog begging. Just go now and teach them that women have equal rights with men, and that it's cruel to eat a piece of the pig while the pig's still raw and groaning in front of you, and that it's simple lunacy to give thanks to God because he's got everything while you're starving to death!...Let people be, boss: don't open their eyes. And supposing you did, what'd they see? Their misery! Leave their eyes closed, boss, and let them go on dreaming!”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“لا بد من التمييز والفصل بين "الدين" والفكر الديني، فالدين هو مجموعة النصوص المقدسة الثابتة تاريخيا، في حين أن الفكر الديني هو الاجتهادات البشرية لفهم تلك النصوص وتأويلها واستخراج دلالتها. ومن الطبيعي أن تختلف الاجتهادات من عصر إلى عصر، بل ومن الطبيعي أيضا أن تختلف من بيئة إلى بيئة-واقع اجتماعي تاريخي جغرافي عرقي محدد- إلى بيئة في اطار بعينه، وأن تتعدد الاجتهادات بالقدر نفسه من مفكر إلى مفكر داخل البيئة المعينة.”
― نصر حامد أبو زيد, نقد الخطاب الديني