Falsehood will never turn to truth even if dressed in silken robes

And placed in a palace.

Greed will never be contentment nor will crime become virtue.

And eternal slavery to teachings and customs and to history, will remain slavery. In all her horrible form. Even if she calls herself Liberty.

Civilisation is vanity and all in it is vanity. Inventions and discoveries are but amusement and comfort for the body when it is tired and weary.

The conquest of distance and the victory over the seas are but false fruit that do not satisfy the soul neither nourish the heart nor lift the spirit. For they are afar from nature!

Those structures and theories which Man calls knowledge and art are nothing but shackles and golden chains which man drags!

And Man rejoices with their glittering reflections amidst ringing sounds!

They all are strong cages whose bars man commenced fabricating ages ago unaware that he was building from the inside and he would soon become his own prisoner to eternity!

Verily, vain are the deeds of Man and vain are his purposes

As all is vanity upon the earth!

<B>Ziyaad MOOS</B>