SEVENTEEN
You returned to al-Kubran’s hotel after buying a loaf of bread, as well as some onions, cucumbers, tomatoes and green peppers from a nearby grocer’s, enough to prepare a plate of sharmoula, to which you would add salt and oil. You decided to cook a hot meal some other day and ate your light dinner quickly, then placed a kettle on top of the burner to make some tea. You started to read verses of the Holy Quran in order to regain your peace of mind, after it had been exhausted by the thought of love, politics, and the governor’s security.
“And for the God-fearing, He always prepares a way out. And He provides for him from sources he could never imagine. And whoever puts his trust in God, sufficient is God for him. For God will surely accomplish His purpose. God has appointed a fa
