Farhad

“Do you think you can rule the world and actually improve it? I do not believe it can be done. The world is sacred. You cannot improve it. Ultimately, you can only change yourselves.”
― Ikhwan al-Safa, The Animals' Lawsuit Against Humanity: An Illustrated 10th Century Iraqi Ecological Fable

“The world is the darling of the heedless. The one deprived of it is absorbed in its quest; while the one who possesses it is absorbed in preserving and enjoying it.”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence

“The earth is uninhabitable, like the moon, and we only delude ourselves thinking that it’s our true home, since we have no other place to go. The earth is good for those who are irrational or invulnerable.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“Yet she belongs, finally and truly, only to God. The hijab is a symbol of freedom from the male regard, but also, in our time, of freedom from subjugation by the iron fist of materialism, deterministic science, and the death of meaning. It denotes softness, otherness, inwardness. She is not only caught in a world of power relations, but she inhabits a world of love and sacrifice. This freedom, which is of the conscience, is hers to exercise as she will.”
― Abdal Hakim Murad, Commentary on the Eleventh Contentions