Rameza

“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“The words of the Quran all seemed strangely familiar yet so unlike anything I had ever read before,’ he told us. He embraced Islam in 1977, and changed his name to Yusuf, the Arabic for Joseph. ‘I identified with the story of Joseph in the Quran,’ he said. ‘His brothers sold him like goods in the market place.’ Yusuf felt the music business had treated him not like an artist but as a commodity.”
― Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life

“Purify your intentions, your inner being, your heart and be sincere in your actions,’ he wrote. ‘God looks into your heart, not at your outer form. He looks at what lies behind the clothes … He looks into your private sphere, not at your public show.”
― Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life

“He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song