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“We've been traders and Muslims for so long that we've forgotten what we were before that. The things that have been left behind have been rewritten. That's why we still get married on great golden chairs, cross our wedded feet under water and small swords, and wear bridal headpieces that dangle with flowers and scent. All left over from time when the land was Hindu instead of Muslim. We've forgotten the religion, but kept the props.
Most of us have, anyway. But there are those who remember.”
― Kathrina Mohd Daud, The Fisherman King