"When I was growing up, we often heard Islam in the form of a slogan: "Islam is the solution," but no one ever told me that Islam can be a burden... Very few Muslims write about Islam creatively because I don't think we're given permission to. I think that's the bane of modern Islam. It's been reduced to slogans."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

Haroon Moghul

#Growing Up Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.”
“Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.”

Source : "La Havas Brings Her Soulful Songs Across The Pond". "Tell Me More" with Celeste Headlee, www.npr.org. December 24, 2012.
“Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.”
“It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.”
“If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more â€Žviolence. If the Jews put â€Ždown their weapons â€Žtoday, there would be noï»¿ â€Žmore Israel'â€Ž”
“I love writing different things.”
“Isaiah 55 provides an entirely different framework for thinking about God's justice, because it suggests that we have it backward - the mystery lies not in God's unfathomable wrath but in his unfathomable mercy. God's ways are higher than our ways because his capacity to love is infinitely greater than our own. Despite all that we do to alienate ourselves from God, all that we do to insult and disobey, God abundantly pardons again and again.”
“If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.”

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