![]() ![]() ![]() "When things go wrong we say 'Kyrie elesion'. "We learn about Jesus Son of Mary and his miracles and St Nicholas and St Dmitri and St Menas and the saints and Abraham and Isaac and Jonah and Emperor Constantine and Alexander the Great and the Marble Emperor, and the great battles against barbarians, and the War of Independence, and we learn reading and writing and adding up and taking away and multiplication and division." "We learn more than you," answered Mehmetcik self-importantly. ![]() Father Kristoforos speaks to him in Greek, but we don't understand that either." "I didn't know that God spoke language." observed Mehmetcik. It's something about being merciful and the Day of Judgement and showing us the right path, and if anything is going wrong, or you're worried, or someone's sick, you just have to say al-Fatihah and everything will probably be all right." ![]() And it's what God speaks, and that's why we have to learn to recite it. "I didn't understand any of it" complained Mehmetcik. Karatavuk closed his eyes and recited:'Bismillah al-rahman al-rahim.' When he's finished he opened his eyes, and mopped his forehead. And we recite the Holy Koran because we have to learn al-Fatihah by heart." "We learn about the Prophet and his three hundred authenticated miracles,and about Abraham and Isaac and Jonah and Omar and Ali and Hind and Fatima and the saints, and sometimes the big battles of Saladin against the barbarians. ![]()
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