Thursday, August 27, 2009

Abandoned Prayer Beads



Zehra is in Turkey now. She left the Ph.D. program. She went home and she's not coming back. What do I do with the orange sajada - prayer rug - and the beads for praying, her subhah she left behind? And this Qur'an? -that has softened with wear, where here she underlined a passage...and here. The words are Turkish. And I wonder how these sacred, well-worn objects missed the plane. What do I do with abandoned prayer beads?

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