“To give voice to the questions--- even in my own head--- would have been to give them power, to confirm the presence of doubt, to risk eventual downfall.” — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
“There is an old Arab Bedouin saying: I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my… — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
“that there are many things that we cant understand. the past. the bad things that happened... and we become afraid. of what might happen… — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine? Fourteen-hundred-year-old views of history determining how neighbors interacted in the twentieth century? No. You can't. Because history here is a dead… — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
“He knows what lies before them, and what is after them, and they comprehend not anything of His knowledge save such as He wills.'… — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
“You won't understand this now, Saira. Later, perhaps. When you are older. When you learn that life is not only about the choices you… — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
“What I saw there explained everything--the reason he had stayed away, why he had come to say good-bye. I can only describe what I… — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
“These tears are proof that there is love in the world. Tears are only bitter when we cry selfishly for ourselves. When we deny… — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
“When someone stops saying hello, I don't see that there's any need to say good-bye.” — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
“No story worth telling should ever be about blame or regret. What happened was what was meant to happen.” — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
“Faith is revelation. And in order to receive revelation you have to be open. Belief is about closing yourself off -- a lie you… — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
“The only law that means anything - that can have anything to do with God - is one that is alive and that strives… — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
“The only way to rise above is to rise above. The only way to respond to wrong is with right. The only way to… — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
