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“I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most of the time I'm good. I accepted my sentence and do not brood or look back. But sometimes a shift makes me remember. Routine is ruffled and a new start makes me suddenly conscious of what I've become -”
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Leila Aboulela
Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing
#Moving Quotes
#New Start Quotes
#World Quotes
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“Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell and fear it, so that we can practice seeking refuge in Him and, when relief comes give thanks to His mercy. Darkness was created so that, like plants, we could yearn and turn to the light.”
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Leila Aboulela
#Light Quotes
#Practice Quotes
#Giving Quotes
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“The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without waiting to be asked.”
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Leila Aboulela
Source : Leila Aboulela (2011). “Lyrics Alley: A Novel”, p.280, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
#Giving Quotes
#Waiting Quotes
#Servant Quotes
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“I must settle for freedom in this modern time”
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Leila Aboulela
Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.131, Bloomsbury Publishing
#Modern Quotes
#Settling Quotes
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“The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, When Allah loves a people, He tries them.”
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Leila Aboulela
#People Quotes
#Trying Quotes
#Prophet Muhammad Quotes
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“Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled”
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Leila Aboulela
Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.126, Bloomsbury Publishing
#Regret Quotes
#Rudeness Quotes
#Sensitive Quotes
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“All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.”
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Leila Aboulela
Source : Leila Aboulela (2007). “Minaret: A Novel”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
#Men Quotes
#Clothes Quotes
#Toilets Quotes
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“Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr”
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Leila Aboulela
#Tests Quotes
#Rewards Quotes
#Patient Quotes
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“The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it's beak”
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Leila Aboulela
Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing
#Ocean Quotes
#Tree Quotes
#Pigeons Quotes
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“I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared”
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Leila Aboulela
Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing
#Be Good Quotes
#Wanted Quotes
#Prepared Quotes
