But there was never any knowing or any certitude; the time to come always had more than one possible direction. - Paul Bowles

If people are living the same as always, with their bellies full of food, they'll just go on the same way. If they get hungry and unhappy enough, something happens.

... how could any young man merely sit back and wait for divine justice to take its course? It was asking the impossible.

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ...