Nermin Mohammed

“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“فَأَشهَدُ عِندَ اللَهِ أَنّي أُحِبُّها
فَهَذا لَها عِندي فَما عِندَها لِيا
قَضى اللَهُ بِالمَعروفِ مِنها لِغَيرِنا
وَبِالشَوقِ مِنّي وَالغَرامِ قَضى لَيا
وَإِنَّ الَّذي أَمَّلتُ يا أُمَّ مالِكٍ
أَشابَ فُوَيدي وَاِستَهامَ فُؤادَيا
أَعُدُّ اللَيالي لَيلَةً بَعدَ لَيلَةٍ
وَقَد عِشتُ دَهراً لا أَعُدُّ اللَيالِيا
وَأَخرُجُ مِن بَينِ البُيوتِ لَعَلَّني
أُحَدِّثُ عَنكِ النَفسَ بِاللَيلِ خالِيا
أَراني إِذا صَلَّيتُ يَمَّمتُ نَحوَها
بِوَجهي وَإِن كانَ المُصَلّى وَرائِيا
وَما بِيَ إِشراكٌ وَلَكِنَّ حُبَّها
وَعُظمَ الجَوى أَعيا الطَبيبَ المُداوِيا
أُحِبُّ مِنَ الأَسماءِ ما وافَقَ اِسمَها
أَوَ اِشبَهَهُ أَو كانَ مِنهُ مُدانِيا”
― قيس بن الملوح, ديوان قيس بن الملوح: مجنون ليلى

“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa