Are there really people who lived more than one life?! .. How and when did this happen?! .
At a time when violence and destruction overwhelm most parts of this planet, and news of murder and disasters tops every news bulletin... and brutal capitalism preoccupies the souls and minds of people, chasing after their own interests, and the number of the world’s wealthy people who have reached an unprecedented level in collecting money is increasing. In the midst of all this materialism and excessive selfishness, there are shining lights of humanity that go in the completely opposite direction. They are a different category of people, people who have dedicated themselves to giving, goodness, and charity, providing great services to humanity at the expense of their time and their own interests. People who still live among us after they were destined to live in the lives of those who came after them. People who were immortalized in history because they were high models of sincere giving to their communities and nations. They provided this universe with great services, values, and deeds that engraved their names on the corners of this planet that would not have lived, progressed, or arrived. It would not have been possible today if it were not for the gifts and services of the great prophets, messengers, scholars, and reformers, and even some simple people whose names have fallen from the pages of history, but they never fell from the comfort that settled their souls, the happiness that filled their souls, and the other lives they lived among those who came after them and benefited from their giving.
Yes... it is giving... that great human value that immortalized everyone who was attached to it and devoted to it... and gave to everyone who gave it.
All we hope for from this book is that it will be a source of inspiration for you to give in any form, at any size, and at any time, to join the club of great giving people. We also hope that the book in itself will be a simple gift from the author. It contributes to enhancing this great human value in our Arab societies, and is a very small step towards developing and improving life, and reconstructing this planet that the Great Creator has appointed us as successors in, and commanded us to strive to reconstruct.
“I am suffocating and Tokyo does not sleep
The story of the book is:
I watch the city's inhabitants, programmed like robots, from the window of my narrow room, with dreams of attending those prestigious universities, those dreams that haunt us like ghosts.
Tokyoites wear the same faces, the same fake laugh.
The degree and inclination of bowing to greet one another is the same and does not increase or decrease a degree.”
In the small greenhouse that I built for my dear flowers and roses, secret conversations take place and stories are told. Each of them tells the other her legend and the stories she witnessed and heard.
I hide from them so that they do not notice my presence, and I record everything that happens between them in my notebook. It's always dawn, and I don't realize how long I've been here in this corner. The conversations and stories told by the roses were not happy at all, they were like thorns with their pain.
The notebook contains a mixture of myths, stories, and texts that Al-Basataniyya collected to share with the reader, as he talks about the dark side of unlimited happiness, about disappointments, and betrayals that never heal. About those human relationships that do not rise to the sky.
Briefly, about the definition of pain in its many faces, which are depicted with thorns running down their branches, leaving a prick, a mark on a finger that touched them, and hidden pain.
From every garden is a flower and from every garden is a thorn
Twenty-one thorns that the gardener documented in her notebook, proving that pain is a universal language that is not limited to the poor only, but transcends all social classes that humans have placed through their ignorance.
Owned houses and others are rented, fleeting and temporary dwellings, between which the writer moves across different Syrian cities, turning the houses into stations, or rest stops that allow her to contemplate the context of her life, her choices, and the source of her desire to remain between closed doors. The subjective nature of the book turns it into a kind of personal testimony, but Nour Abu Farraj is betting that her memories may intersect to a large degree with the experiences of middle-class young men and women from the 1980s generation in Syria, who lived a relatively stable life, before the war came and made a difference in their context. Forcibly expel them from their safe spaces.
In the face of the transience and uncertainty that war brings, description becomes a tribute to the fleeting; This is why the book tries to remind readers of the long time it takes to build a house, in the symbolic or structural sense, but it nonetheless warns them against becoming captives to the place, and encourages them to carry their homes as souvenirs, or small luggage on their long journey.
A book that addresses everything
From life, through love, longing, and separation, all the way to death
He addresses the human heart to reconsider monitoring his actions towards God, getting closer to Him and himself, charging his soul with positive energy, and drawing a smile in every step.
He entertains us and his people:
Nice interactions in the Emirati dialect..
In how many languages can I say I love you? How do I describe a successful person? Describe the best party you have ever attended. The compliment that I will never forget is... Can you tell Wade about a person by his appearance?
Think you already know a lot about yourself and others? Yamatna wa Nasa is a game that will help you discover things you don't know about yourself and others. The game is suitable for all ages. Minimum of 2 players.
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