Habibi Quotes

“You're more than a story.”
― Craig Thompson, Habibi

“The Sufi saint Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was seen carrying a firebrand and a jug of water - the firebrand to burn Paradise, the jug of water to drown Hell...

So that both veils disappear, and God's followers worship, not out of hope for reward, nor fear of punishment, but out of love.”
― Craig Thompson, Habibi

“They say a man's inspiration is visual, but for a woman, it's the narrative.

Abandon both the narrative and the visual. Close your eyes, measure your breath.

Dead weight is sloughed off, dust swept away, forms dissolve into one atmosphere.

The rib cage opens, the lungs fill, the breast rises.

Waves sweep up the body on their swell, rocking it rhythmically.

Feet planted, the back arches, the pelvis reaches forward.

Oxygen kindles a flame, sprawling through the belly, and gathering in a warm blaze.

The hand reaches to meet the sensation.

Calligraphy spills from the inkwell.

Open your eyes, sharpen your focus, and exclaim:

There are no separations.”
― Craig Thompson, Habibi

“And there you have it, Your Highness. Turning a jug of water into gold.”
― Craig Thompson, Habibi

“When the well runs dry, the nomad migrates. But if the barren landscape is within, where can one turn?”
― Craig Thompson, Habibi

“Let me atone for all the sins of men. Let me release the deluge pent up in me. Let me die.”
― Craig Thompson, Habibi

“It seems my calling is to destroy rather than create. To finish removing my body. To erase my presence from this world.”
― Craig Thompson, Habibi

“I've believed women to be pure, and men possessed by evil jinn —Shayateen. But I'm not a man, I bottled the ifrit, cemented a wall.

Now the jinn can only strike internally, and the clearest way to exorcise them is to shatter this container.”
― Craig Thompson, Habibi

“If Paradise lies beneath the feet of the mothers -those tender feet of Dodola- then it's Hell that waits beneath mine.”
― Craig Thompson, Habibi

“Why create man in the first place? Man forsakes his Creator. Man desecrates Creation. Man consumes and excretes. Lusts and rapes. I am all these things. Why give life to a creature so depraved? A creature so incomplete? A creature so alone?”
― Craig Thompson, Habibi