Looks Part 1

"And I knew that God does not forgive evil deeds except those that were lapses that the person who committed them was aware of and then regretted, and I saw that the greatest thing that God punishes is a person''s crime against his brother by shedding his blood, or desecrating his honor, or taking his property, and that the weakest means to God is that. Bowing and prostrating, standing and sitting. If a person spent his life standing between night standing and fasting during the day, and then wronged a small child over a morsel he snatched from his hand, his good deeds would turn into bad deeds, and his routine would avail him nothing of God." "Looks" is one of the classics of literature, that literary production that takes us back to the creativity of past eras, but in a smooth, modern image, so that we can sail into the past with the oar of the future. As Al-Manfaluti accompanies us in this literary expanse, we notice his Arabization of foreign novels, as if their events were taking place on our own land. He draws inspiration from the spirit of the novel and then expresses it with an authentic Arab spirit that touches the reader''s soul and conscience.