The Worlds of Kamal Ruhayyim عوالم كمال رُحيّم

فهكذا حالي مع أمي، في البعد تنازعني نفسي كلما جُرْت عليها، وإذا التقينا يلوك القلب فيما لا يقال..

Such is my state with my mother: at a distance my conscience torments me whenever I've been unjust to her, and when we meet the heart chews on what cannot be said.

From the novel Menorahs and Minarets · Chapter 29

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