Mohammad Mahrous

“At all times people had known greed: but at no time before this had greed outgrown a mere eagerness to acquire things and become an obsession that blurred the sight of everything else: an irresistible craving to get, to do, to contrive more and more - more today than yesterday, and more tomorrow than today: a demon riding on the necks of men and whipping their hearts forward toward goals that tauntingly glitter in the distance but dissolve into contemptible nothingness as soon as they are reached, always holding out the promise of new goals ahead - goals still more brilliant, more tempting as long as they lie on the horizon, and bound to wither into further nothingness as soon as they come within grasp: and that hunger, that insatiable hunger for ever new goals gnawing at man's soul: Nay, if you but knew it you would see the hell you are in ...”
― محمد أسد, The Road To Mecca

“My desire goes elsewhere: I dream of a form of life - though I must confess I do not see it clearly as yet - in which the entire man, spirit and flesh, would strive after a deeper and deeper fulfillment of his Self - in which the spirit and the senses would not be enemies to one another, and in which man could achieve unity within himself and with the meaning of his destiny, so that on the summit of his days he could say, "I am my destiny.”
― Muhammad Asad, The Road to Mecca

“مما يعزي المرء عن بعض أحزانه استشعاره الرضا عن نفسه لأنه لم يخذل أحدا..
ولم يتسخط على قدر اختاره الله له..
ولم يخن نفسه ولا واجبه الإنساني تجاه من تطلع إلى وفائه,
فكان من الأوفياء وكان للآخرين في محنتهم حيث يجب أن يكونوا له هم في شدائد الحياة”
― عبد الوهاب مطاوع, أزواج وزوجات أو صراع الديكة

“فجأة طفا صوت من أعماق ذاكرتي، صوت رجل عجوز من قبائل الأكراد بشمال إيران، قال لي ذات يوم: المياه الراكدة في بركة تتعطن وتتشبع بالطين والعكر، أما المياه المتحركة المتدفقة، فإنها تظل نقية.. هكذا الإنسان في سكونه أو تجواله”
― محمد أسد, The Road to Mecca