“I prayed, felt great solemnity, and communed secretly with God, as a child communing with his mother until I wept. Then, I was silent and I hoped to remain so for a hundred years. Or, to sleep as the Seven Sleepers or People of the Cave for more than three hundred years. I was like someone carrying mountains of exhaustion on my shoulders and I was about to fall unconscious or, to wake up to find my mule, which accompanied me in my long journey of alienation, decomposing next to me.”
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د.أحمد الدوسري,
Ibn Zuraiq Al-Baghdadi: A Passenger of Time