prophet

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7c903a5	The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.	book education ink islamic love martyr muhammad-pbuh prophet society study صلى-الله-عليه-و-سلم	Anonymous
1091159	A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see	empathy intuition prophet wisdom	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
f0322a7	Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he is. They exist to follow and flatter him, and to serve his purposes. A true prophet, I suppose, is like a good parent. A true prophet sees others, not himself. He helps them define their own half-formed dreams, and puts himself at their service. He is not diminished as they become more. He offers courage in one hand and generosity in the other.	prophet	Mary Doria Russell
dbeb597	Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.	prophet red	Orson Scott Card
c0f7a98	Ansar is an Arabic term that means helpers or supporters. They were the citizens of Medina who helped Prophet Mohammed upon His arrival to the Holy city. While 'Hussain' is a derivation of 'Hassan' that means 'GOOD' (I also owe this one to Khaled Hosseini). That's how my favorite character in my debut novel 'When Strangers meet..' gets his name... HUSSAIN ANSARI, because he is the one who helps Jai realize the truth in the story and inspires his son, Arshad, to have FAITH in Allah.	anecdotes hassan hussain india inspirational islam iyer jai khaled-hosseini mecca medina mohammad mohammed mohmet muslim pakistan pathan pathanvali peace philosophy prophet trivia when-strangers-meet	K. Hari Kumar
941d2aa	If the Prophet could speak in this new age of modern amenities, I knew he would end such silly tradition.	princess-sultana prophet saudi-arabien tradition	Jean Sasson
bffe8ad	An everyday Doomsayer in sandwich board abruptly walked away from what, over the last several days, had been his pitch, by the gates of a museum. The sign on his front was an oldschool Prophecy of the End. The one bobbing on his back read 'forget it.	doomsayer irony prophet	China Miéville

The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.

book education ink islamic love martyr muhammad-pbuh prophet society study صلى-الله-عليه-و-سلم

Anonymous

1091159

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

empathy intuition prophet wisdom

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

f0322a7

Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he is. They exist to follow and flatter him, and to serve his purposes. A true prophet, I suppose, is like a good parent. A true prophet sees others, not himself. He helps them define their own half-formed dreams, and puts himself at their service. He is not diminished as they become more. He offers courage in one hand and generosity in the other.

prophet

Mary Doria Russell

dbeb597

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

prophet red

Orson Scott Card

c0f7a98

Ansar is an Arabic term that means helpers or supporters. They were the citizens of Medina who helped Prophet Mohammed upon His arrival to the Holy city. While 'Hussain' is a derivation of 'Hassan' that means 'GOOD' (I also owe this one to Khaled Hosseini). That's how my favorite character in my debut novel 'When Strangers meet..' gets his name... HUSSAIN ANSARI, because he is the one who helps Jai realize the truth in the story and inspires his son, Arshad, to have FAITH in Allah.

anecdotes hassan hussain india inspirational islam iyer jai khaled-hosseini mecca medina mohammad mohammed mohmet muslim pakistan pathan pathanvali peace philosophy prophet trivia when-strangers-meet

K. Hari Kumar

941d2aa

If the Prophet could speak in this new age of modern amenities, I knew he would end such silly tradition.

princess-sultana prophet saudi-arabien tradition

Jean Sasson

bffe8ad

An everyday Doomsayer in sandwich board abruptly walked away from what, over the last several days, had been his pitch, by the gates of a museum. The sign on his front was an oldschool Prophecy of the End. The one bobbing on his back read 'forget it.

doomsayer irony prophet

China Miéville