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“Whether you use bullets or ballots, you've got to aim well; don't strike at the puppet, strike at the puppeteer!”

“[Malcom X] was convinced that he could tell a lot about any person by listening. 'There's an art to listening well,' he told me. 'I listen closely to the sound of a man's voice when he's speaking. I can hear sincerity'”

“For Malcolm X and many others religion was not ‘the opium of the people’ but, in that lesser quoted part of Karl Mark's critique, 'the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions'”.

“[…] a supplication attributed to al-Thawri & Imam Ahmad

Lord of all things, by Your power over all things, forgive me everything, and take me not into account over anything.

[My respected father added]:

Allah, we seek proximity to You through Your mercy which encompasses all things, that You confer exaltations upon the one whom You favoured over all, and from whose light You created all things ﷺ.”