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At forty, they are sent to the Home of the Useless, where the Old Ones live. The Old Ones do not work, for the State takes care of them. They sit in the sun in summer and they sit by the fire in winter.
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“ولا يزال في مجتمعنا العربي حتى اليوم عدد غير قليل من هؤلاء الرجال الذين يعارضون خروج المرأة من بيتها للتعلم أو العمل بدعوى المحافظة على أنوثتها أو شرفها، ويتجاهل هؤلاء الرجال تلك الملايين من النساء الفلاحات اللائي يَخرجْن كل يوم من بيوتهن للعمل، وربما اعتقد هؤلاء الرجال أن الفلاحات لسْنَ نساءً، أو أن العتالات والخادمات ليس لهن أنوثة أو شرف، وإلا فكيف نفسر صمتهم المطبق إزاء خروج هذا العدد الهائل من النساء من بيوتهنَّ كل يوم؟ وكيف يدعي الرجل منهم غيرته على أنوثة المرأة ورقَّتها، في حين أن شعرة واحدة لا تهتز في جسده وهو يسير في الشارع، ومن خلفه خادمته البنت الضعيفة الصغيرة تَحمل عنه وهو رجل قويٌّ الحقائب الثقيلة، ولا يهتز الواحد منهم وهو يرى كل يوم طوابير النساء العتالات والكادحات في الحقول والمشاغل والمصانع؛ حيث تعمل المرأة ضعف الساعات التي يعملها الرجل لأنها تعمل خارج البيت وداخله. بل لا يهتز الرجل منهم وهو راقدٌ في سريره وزوجته تخدمه، ولا تكفُّ عن الحركة داخل البيت من أجل تلبية طلباته وطلبات الأسرة والأطفال.”
― The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World
― The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World
“men needed women more than women needed men. In fact, thought Karen, women could get along perfectly fine without men altogether. They tolerated solitude well, took care of their health and cultivated friendships, lasted longer—”
― Flights
― Flights
“Ibn Hisham (d. 833), the Egyptian scholar whose edition of the Prophet’s biography is most famous, concluded that Muhammad married thirteen women in all, consummated his marriage with eleven of them (two he divorced before consummation), and was married to at most nine at one time. He also had two concubines.”
― Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction
― Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction
“remember that trying is eighty percent of doing something. So try and don't give up, because not giving up is the other twenty percent.”
― A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
― A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
“Ibn Hisham found some of the material that Ibn Ishaq included objectionable, such as the story of the Prophet contemplating suicide after his first revelation and the Satanic Verses (see below). He removed such reports as well as the entire first section of the work, which covered the history of the world (from a very Abrahamic point of view) from Adam and Eve until Muhammad’s birth. Ibn Hisham also added his own selection of stories about Muhammad. Nevertheless, modern historians have tried to reconstruct Ibn Ishaq’s original work by locating his reports in other Muslim historical works of the 9th and 10th centuries.”
― Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction
― Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction
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