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“I will set up my name in the place where the names of famous men are written, and where no man’s name is written yet I will raise a monument to the gods.”
― Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

“How long does a building stand before it falls?
How long does a contract last? How long will brothers

share the inheritance before they quarrel?
How long does hatred, for that matter, last?

Time after time the river has risen and flooded.
The insect leaves the cocoon to live but a minute.

How long is the eye able to look at the sun?
From the very beginning nothing at all has lasted.

See how the dead and the sleeping resemble each other.
Seen together, they are the image of death.

The simple man and the ruler resemble each other.
The face of the one will darken like that of the other.”
― David Ferry, The Epic of Gilgamesh

“Gilgamesh, where are you hurrying to? You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace; for this too is the lot of man.”
― Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

“يروي من فتوح العراق ( .. اتى خالد عين التمر فألصق بحصنها فخرج اهل الحصن فقاتلوا ثم لزموا حصنهم فحاصرهم خالد والمسلمون حتى سألوا الامان فأبى ان يؤمنهم وافتتح الحصن عنوة وقتل وسبى و وجد كنيسة هناك جماعه سباهم .. فكان من ذلك السبي حمران ابن ابان بن خالد التمري) يروي هذا الكهنوتي الحال التوحشي هذا وكأنه امر طبيعي ينتمي الى بنية الدين ومفهومه بينما اهل عين التمر لم يكن ذنبهم الا انهم دافعوا عن ارضهم ونسائهم واطفالهم بل الغريب في حد التوحش انهم طلبوا فقط الامان وبعدها يستسلموا ويقدموا بلادهم له ولكن القائد المسلم ابى الا القتل والسبي .. لو قيل لاسلامي ان هولاكو فعل ذلك بالمسلمين لقال كافر ما اطغاه ولكن حينما يكون قائدا اسلاميا فيراه انتصارا للرسالة الاسلامية”
― عبد الرزاق جبران, لصوص الله: إنقاذ اليوتوبيا الإسلامية