Khalil

“تاریخ کے حساس اِنسانوں نے اپنی زِندگی کا زیادہ حصّہ اداس رہ کر گزارا ہے۔
زِندگی میں خوش رہنے کے لیے بہت زیادہ ہمّت بلکہ بہت زیادہ بےحسی چاہیے۔

جون ایلیأ”
― Jaun Elia

“Muslim and non-Muslim from across the world flocked to Baghdad to be part of Al-Ma'mun's project "Bait Al-Hekmah" or "House of Wisdom”
― Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past

“How long he stood he did not know, but there was a foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himself as an animal come from the forest, drawn by the fire. He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out on the ground. He stood a long time, listening to the warm crackle of the flames.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“In the 10th century, Baghdad instituted a licensing exam that all doctors had to take before practicing as physicians”
― Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past