Poems

Do you make flowers or thorns?

Someone who doesn’t make flowers makes thorns.

If you’re not building rooms where wisdom can be

openly spoken, you’re building a prison.

SHAMS OF TABRIZ

I found this on page XI of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation by Eboo Patel.

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