Gold Turtle

“نحن شعب يحب الموتى، ولا يرى مزايا الأحياء حتى يستقروا في باطن الأرض.”
― يوسف السباعي, أرض النفاق

“The Qur’an sought to reform, not to destroy and start from scratch, to
salvage what was useful and then to modify and build on it. The task was
to get the Arabs to think about religion in a novel way, to inculcate in them a new conceptual frame of reference, to transfer them from one worldview to another, and higher, one. This process of transformation took them from traditionalism to individualism, from impulsiveness to discipline, from supernaturalism to science, from intuition to conscious reasoning and, in the end, ideally, harmonized the whole.”
― Jeffrey Lang, Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam

“نقص الكون هو عين كماله، مثل اعوجاج القوس هو عين قوته، ولو استقام القوس لما رمى.”
― أبو حامد الغزالي

“When I said that Mercy stood
Within the borders of the wood,
I meant the lenient beast with claws
And bloody swift-dispatching jaws.”
― Lawrence Spingarn