Musharraf Ali Farooqi Quotes

#1. After sealing the door, Alqash went to the river to cleanse the blood from his hands and the dagger, and also to wash his hands of the faith that he had forfeited in exchange for short-lived riches.

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#2. Their casual discussion of the characteristics of the man who had shown interest in their mother had seemed unreal to her.

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#3. One day when I ventured into the garden to regard its bloom,
My eyes beheld on a bower a withered rose.
When I inquired what had caused the blight,
"My lips for a moment opened in a smile in this garden," it replied.

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#4. Mona told herself that even if her recent feelings were a delusion, they were by far preferable to the thirty years of immaculate deception she had suffered in her first marriage. Yet she had to forgive Akbar Ahmad - perhaps because he was already dead.

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#5. You always maintained that he was a good father, but I always told you and I'll say it again today, so what if he was a good father? How does that redeem him if he was a bad husband?

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#6. You cannot have everyone else's happiness in mind as well when you go out seeking your own. It's not as if what you wish to of with your life is going to take away anything from theirs.

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