The rise of shams Quotes

“In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness”

“The sun from far gives life. But get close to it and it burns anything down to ashes”

“Pilgrims from all over the world were making their way to the place deemed the pearl of the Middle East. The city was reminiscent of a modern-day Persepolis. Its buildings, like towering pillars, tested the sky’s limit. The evenly paved roads belched with the smell of new tarmac, as if a million masons woke up every morning and by hand lay asphalt one grain at a time. People of all colors, ethnicities, creed and social statuses came bearing money, knowledge or experience in order to build their legacies in the new kingdom, sprouting out of the desert. Dubai had arrived.”

“The work of fate is a mystery”

“Death, one way or another, would breathe life into a new order of balance today.”

“Luck is the devil with a halo”

“People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories.”

“The sword of Zulfiqar is a perfect fusion of power and function”

“And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant.”

“He had never met a girl who shot an arrow straighter than Cupid did”