Mohamed Hasn

“Let the deaf listen to the mute.
A soul is needed to understand them both.

Without listening we understood.
Without understanding we carried it out.

On this Way, the seeker's wealth is poverty.

We loved, we became lovers.
We were loved, we became the beloved.
When all is perishing moment by moment
Who has time to be bored?

God divided His people into Seventy-two languages and borders arose.

But poor Yunus fills the earth and sky,
and under every stone hides a Moses.”
― Yunus Emre, The Drop That Became the Sea: Lyric Poems

“No need for radio:
We are the news.”
― Mosab Abu Toha, Forest of Noise: Poems

“The great point is that the possibilities are really here. Whether it be we who solve them, or [God] working through us, at those soul-trying moments when fate's scales seem to quiver, ...is of small account, so long as we admit that the issue is decided nowhere else than here and now. That is what gives the palpitating reality to our moral life.”
― William James

“There aren't neat solutions to every mystery. People.. complicate everything. They do things for reasons they don't understand. They do things for no reason at all... people are mysterious, the world is mysterious. You can't know everything. You're not supposed to. This isn't a history book. It's just the world. It's a messy place.”
― William Landay