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الراحةُ لا تُنال إلا بعد التعب، والفرحُ لا يُعرف إلا بعد الحزن
“Rest is not attained except after toil, and joy is not known except after sorrow.”
مَن رأى عيبَ نفسه اشتغل به عن عيوب الناس
“Whoever sees his own faults is too occupied with them to notice the faults of others.”
الحكيمُ يتعلمُ من أخطائه، والعاقلُ من أخطاء غيره، والأحمقُ لا يتعلم أبدًا
“The wise man learns from his own mistakes, the intelligent from others', and the fool learns from neither.”
إذا اتسع صدرك للمصيبة لم تجد فيها ألمًا
“If your heart is wide enough to embrace calamity, you will find no pain in it.”
إِنَّ الحُبَّ فِي مِصْرَ كَالمَوتِ، قَضَاءٌ وَقَدَر
“Love in Egypt is like death; it is a matter of fate and destiny.”
وَإِن تَعُدُّوا۟ نِعْمَةَ ٱللَّهِ لَا تُحْصُوهَآ ۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَغَفُورٌۭ رَّحِيمٌۭ
“We shall test you with hardship and loss — yet glad tidings await the patient and the grateful heart.”
وَإِذْ تَأَذَّنَ رَبُّكُمْ لَئِن شَكَرْتُمْ لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمْ ۖ وَلَئِن كَفَرْتُمْ إِنَّ عَذَابِى لَشَدِيدٌ
“Be grateful, and I shall pour upon you boundless grace.”
هُوَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ فِى سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍۢ ثُمَّ ٱسْتَوَىٰ عَلَى ٱلْعَرْشِ ۚ يَعْلَمُ مَا يَلِجُ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا يَخْرُجُ مِنْهَا وَمَا يَنزِلُ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَمَا يَعْرُجُ فِيهَا ۖ وَهُوَ مَعَكُمْ أَيْنَ مَا كُنتُمْ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌۭ
“Wherever your footsteps carry you, He is there — watching, knowing, never leaving your side.”
۞ قُلْ يَٰعِبَادِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا۟ عَلَىٰٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ لَا تَقْنَطُوا۟ مِن رَّحْمَةِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ ٱلذُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًا ۚ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلْغَفُورُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ
“Never lose hope in Allah's boundless mercy — for He forgives all sins, and in His embrace the lost find their way home.”
فَتَعَٰلَى ٱللَّهُ ٱلْمَلِكُ ٱلْحَقُّ ۗ وَلَا تَعْجَلْ بِٱلْقُرْءَانِ مِن قَبْلِ أَن يُقْضَىٰٓ إِلَيْكَ وَحْيُهُۥ ۖ وَقُل رَّبِّ زِدْنِى عِلْمًۭا
“Let this be the prayer of every seeker: O Lord, ever increase me in knowledge.”
وَإِنَّ المَوتَ أَعدَلُ مِن حُكّامٍ عَلى وَجهِ البَسيطَةِ لَو عَدَلنا
“Death is more just than any ruler on the face of the earth, if we were to be fair.”
وَٱصْبِرْ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُضِيعُ أَجْرَ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ
“Persevere — for Allah never lets the effort of the righteous vanish unrewarded.”
الذَّاكِرَةُ ليسَت ما نَتَذَكَّرُه، بَل ما نَختارُ أَن نَنساه
“Memory is not what we remember, but what we choose to forget.”
أَتَيتُ إِلى هَذا العالَمِ بِلا عُنوان، لَكِنَّني عِشتُ فيهِ بِكُلِّ عُنوان
“I came into this world without an address, but I lived in it with every address.”
المَرأَةُ التي تَكتُبُ لا تَستَسلِم، إِنَّها تَترُكُ لِنَفسِها مَخرَجاً دائِماً
“A woman who writes does not surrender — she always leaves herself a way out.”
الحُبُّ الحَقيقيُّ لا يَسأَلُ عَن الثَّمَن، لِأَنَّهُ يَعرِفُ أَنَّ لا ثَمَنَ لَه
“True love does not ask about the price, because it knows there is none.”
ثَمَّةَ كُتُبٌ تَقرَؤُها وَثَمَّةَ كُتُبٌ تَقرَؤُك
“There are books you read, and books that read you.”
الوَحدَةُ لا تَعني الفَراغَ، إِنَّها تَعني المَلءُ بِأَشياءَ أَكبَرُ مِنّا
“Solitude does not mean emptiness — it means being filled with things greater than ourselves.”
كُلُّ كَلِمَةٍ أَكتُبُها هيَ جِسرٌ أَعبُرُهُ مِن الصَّمتِ إِلى الوُجود
“Every word I write is a bridge I cross from silence into existence.”
نَحنُ لا نَنسى مَن أَحبَبناهُم، نَحنُ نَتَعَلَّمُ فَقَط كَيفَ نَحيا بِدونِهِم
“We do not forget those we loved — we only learn how to live without them.”
الغِيابُ يُكَبِّرُ الأَشياءَ وَيَجعَلُها أَعظَمَ مِمّا هيَ في الحَقيقَة
“Absence magnifies things and makes them greater than they truly are.”