“ولما نطقت حروف اسمه خيل إليه أنه يسمع صوت جاء من الجنة.S.A”

“إنما سكن الليل وهدأ لينصت إلي أحاديثنا.S.A”

“القراءة يمكنها أن تهزمك اذا لم تضع لها حدودوتجعلك تتقاعد مبكرا عن وتترك أفكارك تحت سيطرة الكتاب”

“يقاتل الجندي أعداءه بضراوة، يتمني لو يفنيهم جميعاً...لكنه إذا قدر له، مرة واحدة، أن يعبر إلي الجانب الآخر ويتجول بين صفوفهم، سيجدهم بشرا طبيعين مثله، سيري أحدهم يكتب خطاباً لزوجته، وآخر يتأمل صور أطفاله، وثالثا يحلق ذقنه ويدندن... كيف يفكر الجندي حينئذ؟... ربما يعتقد أنه كان مخدوعا عندما حارب هؤلاء الناس الطيبين وعليه أن يغير موقفه منهم.. أو.. ربما يفكر أن ما يراه مجرد مظهر خادع، وأن هؤلاء الوادعين ما إن يتخذوا مواقعهم ويشهروا أسلحتهم حتي يتحولوا إلي مجرمين، يقتلون أهله ويسعون إلي إذلال بلاده...”

“DONT YOU DARE GIVE UP, WOMAN!”

“Sheikh Bilal had takenhim aside the day before the wedding and spoken to him of marriageand his wife’s rights in the Law, stressing to him that there was nothingfor a Muslim to feel shy about in marrying a woman who was not avirgin and that a Muslim woman’s previous marriage ought not to be aweak point that her new husband could exploit against her. He saidsarcastically, “The secularists accuse us of puritanism and rigidity,even while they suffer from innumerable neuroses. You’ll find that ifone of them marries a woman who was previously married, thethought of her first husband will haunt him and he may treat herbadly, as though punishing her for her legitimate marriage. Islam hasno such complexes.”

“...he was one of the great intellectuals of the 1940s who completedtheir higher studies in the West and returned to their country toapply what they had learned there—lock, stock, and barrel—withinEgyptian academia. For people like them, “progress” and “the West”were virtually synonymous, with all that that entailed by way of positiveand negative behavior. They all had the same reverence for thegreat Western values—democracy, freedom, justice, hard work, andequality. At the same time, they had the same ignorance of the nation’sheritage and contempt for its customs and traditions, which they consideredshackles pulling us toward Backwardness from which it wasour duty to free ourselves so that the Renaissance could be achieved.”