The Worlds of Kamal Ruhayyim عوالم كمال رُحيّم

أما الدبلة التي أخرجتها من إصبعه يوم أن مات لم أجد مكانًا أحن عليها من إصبعي

As for the ring I slipped from his finger the day he died, I found no place kinder to it than my own finger.

From the novel Menorahs and Minarets · Chapter 4

Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.