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Elif Shafak

  • Mahreen Begumhas quoted6 months ago
    It’s easy to love a perfect God, unblemished and infallible that He is. What is far more difficult is to love fellow human beings with all their imperfections and defects. Remember, one can only know what one is capable of loving. There is no wisdom without love. Unless we learn to love God’s creation, we can neither truly love nor truly know God.
  • Mahreen Begumhas quoted2 months ago
    Neither My heaven nor My earth embraces Me, but the heart of My believing servant does embrace Me.
  • Anna Shestopalhas quoted4 months ago
    Not so in Istanbul though. Rain, for us, isn't necessarily about getting wet. It's not about getting dirty even. If anything, it's about getting angry. It's mud and chaos and rage, as if we didn't have enough of each already. And struggle. It's always about struggle.
  • Anna Shestopalhas quoted4 months ago
    It angers us all when the sky opens and spits on our heads.
  • Fahuma Mohamedhas quoted8 months ago
    till waters—a predictable sequence of habits, needs, and preferences.
  • Fahuma Mohamedhas quoted8 months ago
    ore important things than passion and love in a marriage, such as understanding, affection, compassion, and that most godlike act a person could perform, forgiveness.
  • Fahuma Mohamedhas quoted8 months ago
    g, busy house with children, elegant furniture, and the wafting scent of homemade pies
  • Fahuma Mohamedhas quoted8 months ago
    ve came to Ella as suddenly and brusquely as if a stone had been hurled from out of nowhere into the tranquil pond of her life.
  • Fahuma Mohamedhas quoted8 months ago
    Isn’t connecting people to distant lands and cultures one of the strengths of good literature?”
  • Fahuma Mohamedhas quoted8 months ago
    ecret of the Qur’an lies in the verse Al-Fatiha,
    And the secret of Al-Fatiha lies in Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
    And the quintessence of Bismillah is the letter ba,
    And there is a dot below that letter.…
    The dot underneath the B embodies the entire universe.…

    The Mathnawi starts with B,
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