Status Updates From The Early Hours

"If we are doomed, it may well be that our destruction by injustice will be the signal for the great revival of Islâm. These are the early hours; for light and darkness, good and evil, life and death, succeed each other always by Divine decree. Each has its usefulness towards Allah's purpose. But evil will not triumph ultimately, that is sure."

"Misfortune is a state more hopeful than prosperity, if men be staunch and persevere in righteous action"

Very glad this makes mention of atrocities such as the massacres against Armenians by the CUP rather than brush everything under the carpet. Really shows how tragic the fall of the Empire was.

"'It is as if,' said Basri Bey, 'they did not care a jot for human progress or reform, but only loved mere names like Parliament and Kiamil Pasha - names, you will observe, associated with the name of England."

Interesting to see the change of pace from constant praise of the CUP and England's "support" for Turkiye, to straight up criticism of European Imperialism. Definitely unexpected.

"I saw the falsehood of the Franks, which saved me from the madness of that fool who spoke to us just now; yet their ideas impressed my mind sufficiently to prevent me from becoming a whole-hearted Muslim ... And now that fool tonight has made it all seem madness. I thought that could share in the enthusiasm; but now I see that I must still look on and jest."

"The true jihad is not of those who say ""We are Muslims" against those who say ""We are Christians." The true jihâd is of good against evil, beginning with the conquest of a man's own lusts and ending in the battle which we are now waging for righteous conduct in the government of man."

"The feda'is were in truth in such a state of inward fervour that outward things were merely objects offered to their sight or hearing, which succeeded one another such objects do in dreams. And all, with the exception of a few like Hasan, were men possessing education and the power of thought."