“If you look at the Quran and judge it by Christian standards, it's a very holy book; 99% of it agrees with the Bible. So if that's from the Devil, the Devil's certainly compromising his own principles.
From: Between Muhammad and Jesus, A Dialogue with Peter Kreeft and Zeki Saritoprak at U Illinois”
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From: Between Muhammad and Jesus, A Dialogue with Peter Kreeft and Zeki Saritoprak at U Illinois”
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“وكلما كنت أتحير في مسألة أو لم أكن أظفر بالحد الأوسط في قياس ترددت إلى الجامع وصليت وابتهلت إلى مبدع الكل حتى فتح لي المنغلق منه ويسر المتعسر وكنت أرجع بالليل إلى داري وأضع السراج بين يدي واشتغل بالقراءة والكتابة فمهما غلبني النوم أو شعرت بضعف عدلت إلى شرب قدح من الشراب ريثما تعود إلى قوتي ثم أرجع إلى القراءة ومتى أخذني أدنى نوم أحلم بتلك المسألة بعينها حتى أن كثيرا من المسائل اتضح لي وجوهها في المنام ولم أزل كذلك حتى استحكم معي جميع العلوم”
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“I think government starts civilization not writing. In fact why did writing happen in the first place? What happened was bureaucrats were trying to figure out how to keep track of how many cows they had, how much wheat they had stored in the greeneries, how many swords they had, how many horses they had and the politicians went to the bureaucrats and said: you need to come up with some mechanism to keep track of all of this and so the bureaucrats began coming up with symbol sets for numbers and for items and over time those symbol sets evolved into writing.”
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“There is nothing that I dread more than having to start on something and nothing that I enjoy more once I've actually started on it.”
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