"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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Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

Leila Aboulela

#Ocean Quotes #Tree Quotes #Pigeons Quotes

“The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.”

Source : A Child's Garden of Misinformation (1965) ch. 8
“Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.”
“There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.”
“If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.”
“Helen Weaverâ€™s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasnâ€™t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up toâ€“how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And hereâ€™s how.”
“A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.”
“Preach by example of your lives rather than by words. Example is the very best sermon.”
“Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.”

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