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Hi, I'm Damien Syed from Pakistan. I'm a big time book reader. And uh there's a passage from the book called Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsi. It's beautiful. I'm practically in love with it because it gives a very, very different perspective to Lucifer uh to Adam, to God. Um All three of them in just one passage. And uh I would like to read the whole thing out. So you understand why it is so fascinating to me. Uh Lucifer at many places is um uh you know, the word has been replaced uh by Iblis Ili is another word for Lucifer and Adam is another word for Adam. So, um in the book, if I read that out, this is what it means. Um Eli and Adam uh meeting thousands of years after God has vanished, both of them from heaven. Uh The conversation starts with the, you know, recriminations and petty snipings and then moves on to Lucifer challenging Adam's love for all love. God. Here you go. I loved him more than you. Lucifer says that's why being banished from his presence placed me in **** and you only in the middle ground of mud. No, Adam replies, my crime was merely disobedience. Yours was pride. That is the reason for our deferring punishments. Our punishment is the same says Lucifer exiled from his presence. We merely view that exile differently. But since you bring it up, your crime was far worse than mine. Yours arose from wilfulness, mine from love. I hated you because you supplanted me in my beloved affection. And if that was in pain enough, he asked me then to accept the falling off of his love by buying to you. He was unfair, Adam to both of us. He gave you curiosity. He gave me this faculty of eternal and undiminished love. And then he turned those faculties against us. Admitted we've been wronged. Adam replies, I cannot admit it. If I offend him any further, he may send me to where you are to a place which is **** precisely because it offers no hope of reprive no hope that I may return to him in heaven. One day soon, Adam and the police are weeping in each other's arms. Allah sees this and knows the time has come. He turns the sky to the red of stained leather. Adam turns joyfully towards heaven as the police began to make his weary way back to ****. Least the Lord speaks. Where are you going to the present of eternal separation to which you have condemned me? Says, Ali and the Lord says, beloved, have you forgotten of all my attributes the foremost are these, I am the merciful. I am the most compassionate. Wow. I mean, this is a perspective that I never visualized before. But you know, this passage gives me the kind of hope that one day at the end of the day, we'll, we'll all be judged on our intentions, not on what we did. Thank you so much for listening up.