“I believe he is attempting to pray,” said Sheikh Bilal.
“But he isn’t clean. He hasn’t performed the ablution or checked the direction of Mecca, or begun in the correct position.”
“My dear sir,” said the sheikh. “God likes catching His servants unprepared. The boy has set down what is obviously the first plate of food he has seen in a long while in order to thank his Creator. There are few acts of piety more honest than that.”
―
G. Willow Wilson,
Alif the Unseen
