How long can this situation last and be tolerated? When Imam Ali, Commander of the Faithful, heard that an anklet was forcefully removed from the feet of a Jewish woman by the invaders in one of the frontier cities under his rule, he said, "If a man dies from grief because of this act, he should not be reprimanded.

Attar has roamed through the seven cities of love while we have barely turned down the first street.

In arms even it is best to attack hearts rather than cities; to fight with sentiment is better than to fight with weapons.

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.