Abdelrahman Badran

“الكلمات أفعال أيضاً، والأفعال نوع من الكلمات.”
― رالف والدو إمرسون, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And how can someone be described as flawless [or protector] who is not freed from his lower self”
― Imam Al-Ghazali

“Ibn Arabi observes that the most perfect of mystic lovers are
those who love God simultaneously for himself and for them-
selves, because this capacity reveals in them the unification of
their twofold nature (a resolution of the torn "conscience
malheureuse" ). He who has made himself capable of such love
is able to do so because he combines mystic knowledge ( ma
rrifa ) with vision ( shuhud) .”
― Henry Corbin, Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi

“We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign people. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing if higher value than truth itself”
― Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples