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“Hawwir yâ bu’ l-huwwârâ, my country is the land of civilization, he who doesn’t know that, let him come for a visit therein.” A popular Syrian song
For learning about wisdom and instruction, for understanding words of insight, for gaining instruction in wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity; to teach shrewdness to the simple, knowledge and prudence to the young – Let the wise also hear and gain in learning, and the discerning acquire skill, to understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles. Proverbs 1:2-6.
Ah, soiled, defiled, oppressing city! It has listened to no voice; it has accepted no correction… The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning. Its prophets are reckless faithless persons; its priests have profaned what is sacred, they have done violence to the law. Zephaniah 3: 2-4.
The word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach and will rest upon Damascus. Zechariah 9: 1.
"The people of this City sometimes seem to me more like decrepit old archetypes than real human beings - more like lecherous and senile gods forever engaged in a meaningless game of intrigue, mayhem and debauchery where nothing, it seems, can ever satisfy their voracious lust for blood and semen. Yet, I live in this City. It is my home. I am one of those archetypes, those gods... Will anyone defile me? Will someone, anyone, desecrate me, please? How else could I regain my purity?" Khâlid Shukűkî.
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lust for salvation, Brother, as though it were a woman, and I - a man.
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