Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.