Jamil Nasir Quote

As it was, deformed and made mad by his hellish life, he had become what prophets had probably always been: not frauds, for they themselves believed what they had seen, but pitiful creatures, dreaming some salvation from this crushing world in their malfunctioning brains. Yaum ed din, the crazy little man, the prophet Aida's John the Baptist, had said: the Day of Religion, the Muslim's term for Judgment Day. Yaum ed din, the last consolation of the crazy and the weak.


Chapter 9 (p. 123) - Tower of Dreams (1999)


As it was, deformed and made mad by his hellish life, he had become what prophets had probably always been: not frauds, for they themselves believed...

As it was, deformed and made mad by his hellish life, he had become what prophets had probably always been: not frauds, for they themselves believed...

As it was, deformed and made mad by his hellish life, he had become what prophets had probably always been: not frauds, for they themselves believed...

As it was, deformed and made mad by his hellish life, he had become what prophets had probably always been: not frauds, for they themselves believed...