Baghdad heretic

Author's name: Jaafar Rajab

It happened a lot, it went east and west, she planted some of her optimism in my heart after she warned me. I remember that I took it as a joke and said to her: “All this is on my palm.” She said: “Yes, you naive one, it is your destiny drawn on your hands!” I said defiantly: “Rather, I draw my destiny with my own hands!” She laughed mockingly and said: "Don't be so confident, you naive girl. Many have given up after realizing that the wind does not blow at the captain's command, the rains do not fall at the monks' prayers, and earthquakes are not intimidated by the sultan's armies. They always thought that the world was in their hands, and when they were in his hands, they thought they were deeply rooted trees that the winds could not break nor the storms bend, and when they were, they were merely leaves of trees in the path of the autumn winds, which threw them where they hated, not where they loved. Remember, daughter of Adam, that (Adam's beginning is sighs and his end is blood)... none will escape it except he whose heart is connected to the Most High."

Quotes from the book "The Heretic of Baghdad"
Rather, it is in the heart, and because it is in the heart, you think it is everywhere.
I often wonder whether this religion truly came to save humanity or to justify humanity's ugly deeds.
It is love, my friend, that overflowed from the first cause of this universe, so the celestial bodies and moons, the earth, the sky, the mountains, the rivers, the rains, the flowers, and (Saba), the most delicate of the world’s creatures, are an overflow from that first that is before everything, and they are more beautiful than everything.