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KaƴáL
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“التناقض الاجتماعي كامن في اعماق الشاب العربي ،فهو يقلد الشاب الغربي في أفانين الغرام ،ولكنه في الزواج يريد تقليد أبيه وأعمامه وأخواله . إنه في غرامياته (دون جوان) وفي زواجه (حاج عليوي”
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“While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.”
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
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“You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it.
It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.
From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.”
― Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam
It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.
From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.”
― Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam
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