ألا أسمع وسوسة الشيطان وأرجع إلى بلدي بجماله وقبحه، بقنوطه وضحكاته، وأحرص على أن يكون لي وطن له نبض وعروق، وليس شيئًا مطمورًا في دهاليز القلب وعتامات الغربة والشتات..
That I should not listen to the devil's whisper, but go back to my country with its beauty and its ugliness, its despair and its laughter, and make sure I have a homeland with a pulse and veins—not something buried in the corridors of the heart and the darkness of exile and dispersion.
From the novel Menorahs and Minarets · Chapter 26
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.