I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion.
Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad chase undertaken by the spirit until it encounters the heavens.
I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.
At times people who are extremely sad become lighthearted for the most trivial reasons, merely to obtain the relief furnished by the exactly opposite condition.
Don’t go back over the past. Let it depart, never to return.
Why don’t we keep track of the happy moments, so that afterward we will believe them? Is he the same man Was he really sincere?
I want a world where hearts are not deceived and do not deceive others.
No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer
An anxious heart is like a string that’s out of tune.
There is no alternative to action, and that requires faith. The issue is how we are to mold for ourselves a belief system that is worthy of life.
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.
I defend both the freedom of expression and society’s right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.