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.