To make a difference is just. . . I think. . . the purpose of what life is.
Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.
Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.
By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.
Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our understanding of the world so that we can become a full and equal part of it rather than just a means of decorating it; to move towards a place where the mere act of being a girl isn't used against us as both a threat and an obligation. Through feminism, I have found a peace of sorts from the sense that my femaleness required a constant apology so that I might be given permission to pass through these narrow corridors.