"By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads,by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance."

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Source : "Islam at the Crossroads" by Muhammad Asad, Dar Al-Andalus, (p. 70), 1982.

Muhammad Asad

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“I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth . The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov . It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.”
“I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision of the movie is and if it matches my vision and then we go after it.”
“[I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.”
“Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry.”
“I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.”

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“As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.”

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“The person you became with her is worth being.”
“Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough”

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