"DESOLATE are the mansions of the fair, the stations in Minia, where they rested, and those where they fixed their abo…"

"Yea, everything is vain, except only God alone, and every pleasant thing must one day vanish away! And all the race o…"

"I stood asking news of the ruins concerning their lovely habitants; but what avail my questions to dreary rocks, who …"

"They translate books of science and attribute authorship to their coreligionists."

"God has sent showers upon the abandoned dwelling-places of those we loved. He has woven upon them a striped, many-col…"

"We reject the reprobate, His words we repudiate, His religion we loathe and hate."

"Abu Lahab stood up and shouted angrily, "Perish you, Mohammad! Did you invite us here for this?" The answer to Abu La…"

"I have grown weary of the troubles of life. I know what has happened to-day and yesterday, before it, but verily, of …"

"If you do not know what death is, then look at Hāni' and Ibn 'Aqīl in the marketplace. Look at a hero whose face the …"

"You have asked one who knows. The hearts of the people are with you, but their swords are with the Banu Umayyah. The …"