Nadeem Aslam - The Wasted Vigil (2008)

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To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.

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On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

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The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

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Pull a thread here and you'll find it's attached to the rest of the world.

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Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

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How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

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This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.

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