Your safety and penance I do not know.
-Suleiman KhairAllah
I doubt that after telling his father what I had written to him about my hip surgery that Suleiman meant to invoke the Arabic concept of Tawba, Penance, in the sense of Repentance for Straying from Islam’s Straight Path. KhairAllah knew full well that as a Khawaja I was unable to steer a straight path whether astride or afoot.