“I hope I go dreaming in Arabic because love there sounds like the wind passes through every vowel. somewhere buried in my voice there is asphalt singing as brothers build rooms for one another everyone gets a duaa to float across the lake and watch disappear/this is mine.” Arabic LiteratureSuicide ThoughtsArabic LanguageDiaspora QuotesLast Will Book:The Moral Judgement of Butterflies Source: The Moral Judgement of Butterflies
“The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they refused to adopt the Arabic language, and it's a great point of pride to them that Persian culture and the Persian language and Persian literature survived the conversion to Islam. And the conversion to Islam also was for most of them not the Sunni majority form, but the Shia one. So there's a great discrepancy between Iranian society and many other of what we think of as Arab Muslim States and systems.” PeopleThinkingWorldStatesFormCultureLiteratureLanguagePrideMajorityIslamConversionSurvivedConquestIranianPersianArab WorldDiscrepanciesShiaDiscrepancies BetweenArabic Language Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I've been working a lot with identity and roots, being part of your roots. I went into this topic where I was trying to break the stereotype of Arabic language. The non-translation work, this is where I make the switch, where you don't need to translate.” NeedsTryingLanguageBreakIdentityRootsTranslateStereotypeTopicsTranslationsWorking A LotArabic Language Author:eL Seed
“So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam, our true religion, and we've been made deaf, dumb, and blind in slavery.And Elijah Muhammad was taught by Allah, who we refer to as God, to teach us the truth that will free us.And when I heard it, I've been free ever since. I have no racial problems, I don't go where I'm not wanted.” MadeProblemWantedNamesSpeakLanguageTeachHeardTaughtSlaveryBlindIslamDumbDeafMuhammadTrue ReligionElijahElijah MuhammadArabic Language Author:Muhammad Ali
“Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.” LanguageInspiringArabic Language Author:Umar
“I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.” PeopleI CanUseCertainLanguageLibertyThemeTake MeArabic Language Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun