And I learned that God does not forgive bad deeds unless it was one of the mistakes of the mistakes that the one who committed it is aware of, and then regrets it, and I saw that the greatest thing for which God punishes a person’s crime against his brother is by shedding his blood, insulting his honor, or robbing him of his money, and that the weakest means to God is that of bowing And prostration, and standing and sitting, so if a person spent his life between a standing night and a fasting day, then wronged a small child over a morsel he snatched from his hand, his good deeds would have turned into bad deeds, and his abstinence from God would not avail him anything.
“Looks” is one of the classics of literature, that literary production that takes us back to the creativity of past eras, but in the form of a modern, smooth series, so that we can sail into the past with the oar of the future.
As Al-Manfaluti accompanies us in this literary space, we feel his Arabization of foreign novels, as if their events were on our own land.