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أميلُ بقلبي عنك ثُمّ أرُدُّهُ وأعذِرُ نفسي فيك ثُمّ ألُومُها 

“قاوم ؛ حتي لو وصلت ممزقّاً ، لذة الوصول سترمِّمُك.”

Grace Kelly photographed by Howell Conant in Jamaica in 1955.

Qur'an Manuscript Folio (Verso); Right folio of Double-Page Illuminated Frontispiece, 1500s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Islamic Art

The sending down of the Book is from God the All-mighty, the All-wise. Surah XXXIX: 1-3 The Qur'an is the sacred book of Islam. In the view of orthodox Muslims, it is the literal word of God as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632) in the Arabic language, and thus, recorded in the Arabic script. Because of its association with the divine word, Arabic calligraphy came to be a supreme art form in the Islamic world. As the quintessential symbol of the culture, it became a pervasive decorative element in Islamic art and architecture. Although secondary to calligraphy, a splendid tradition of illumination –that is, ornamentation with colors and gold– developed to enhance the pages of the Qur'an. Because of the prestige associated with the book arts in the Islamic world, the decorative motifs employed by illuminators (scrolling vines, blossoms, lozenges, adn cartouches) found their way into other art forms, for example, metalwork, textiles, and carpets. Size: Sheet: 28 x 17.4 cm (11 x 6 7/8 in.); Text area: 8.4 x 6.4 cm (3 5/16 x 2 ½ in.) Medium: ink, gold, and colors on paper

https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.746.1.b

Late autumn. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei (November 1961).

The tree of manners.. might translate it one day..

الحياء يمنع الرّزق

مثل عربي قديم

Translation:

“Shyness stops fortune”

Old Arab proverb

Fortune always favors the bold

التعبير نصف التّجارة

مثل عربي قديم

Translation:

“eloquence is half of commerce”

أحَشَفاً وسوءَ كِيلَة

مثل جاهلي

وأصله أن أعرابياً ذهب يشتري تمراً، فوجده رَدِيَّ النوعِ ولاحظَ أن البائع يغشّ في الكيل، فقال له: أحشفاً وسوء كيلة، فصارتْ مثلاً لمن يجمع بين أمرين مكروهين.

Translation:

“So its Crappy dates and cheating weights!”

Arabic proverb

Story behind it:

A man went to buy dates and found them to be of bad quality, and upon looking at the weights he found out he was cheating at them too. Used when a person has two bad traits.

"لايمكنك أن تُشفى فى نفس البيئة التى جعلتك مريضًا .. غادر."