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And Allah is the East and the West, therefore wherever you turn there is Allah’s purpose…
As a reminder of how women like us suffer, she’d said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.
Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He Who has power over all things, Who created death and life that He may try you.
Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance.
Hekmatyar’s
“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He Who has power over all things, Who created death and life that He may try you.
the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
He has created the heavens and the earth with the truth; He makes the night cover the day and makes the day overtake the night, and He has made the sun and the moon subservient; each one runs on to an assigned term; now surely He is the Mighty, the Great Forgiver.
