Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that...
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way.
Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.
My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.