Nafisa Haji Quotes

#1. The only law that means anything - that can have anything to do with God - is one that is alive and that strives for justice given the circumstances of the present. Otherwise, the law is merely something dead, a weapon in the hands of those with power. Against those with none.

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#2. To give voice to the questions
even in my own head
would have been to give them power, to confirm the presence of doubt, to risk eventual downfall.

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#3. You won't understand this now, Saira. Later, perhaps. When you are older. When you learn that life is not only about the choices you make. That some of them will be made for you.

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#4. When someone stops saying hello, I don't see that there's any need to say good-bye.

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#5. The only way to rise above is to rise above. The only way to respond to wrong is with right. The only way to deal with injustice is to be just.

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#6. Faith is revelation. And in order to receive revelation you have to be open. Belief is about closing yourself off
a lie you tell yourself to make the world fit in with how you've decided it should be. Real faith is an action - a verb. It's truth unfolding.

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#7. No story worth telling should ever be about blame or regret. What happened was what was meant to happen.

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