Jamila Mbarek Quotes

I welcome you to my home as my son, as the husband of my daughter who is the noor of my eye. Your pain will be our pain, your joy our joy. I hope that you will come to see your Khala and Jamila and me as a second set of parents, and I pray for your and our lovely Soraya jan's happiness. you both have our blessings. ~ Khaled Hosseini

Rumi and Shams bring to our lives the simple truth that we are not alone, that God really does care. And God's joyous love for each of us is rivaled only by Her divine sense of humor. ~ Jamila Hammad

You resist my words because of your own insecurities and the fear that right now you could be the God that you truly are. ~ Jamila Hammad

When you talk about an injury and the kind of depression you go through, it's not just because you're out of shape and you can't go out and play. You're missing a part of you. That's what's painful. That's what hurts. ~ Jamila Wideman

It wasn't meant to be, Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be. ~ Khaled Hosseini

Rumi and Shams taught us how to see the world with new eyes, how to find our place in the order of things, and how to extricate the true self trapped under layers of noise. ~ Jamila Hammad

Even now I often ask myself: perhaps love produces a feeling of inspiration similar to that experienced by an artist or a poet? ~ Chingiz Aitmatov

Then you know love in a way different than mine. The love that guides me is like water. It flows, it is pure, and it takes away the thirst for home, because love is home. ~ Jamila Hammad

On a cold winter's eve, my dear friend Jamila and I journeyed in the stillness of meditation to find God. We found God, two of them. More likely, they found us. ~ Jamila Hammad