This guy made forty days feel like forty years.
-KhairAllah Khair al-Sayyid, talking to himself, Cairo Camel Market, February 1984
It had been forty days sharing aseeda and trail dust, but once we got to Cairo it was almost as if it had never happened. Ma’a salaama, sa’ashufak in shaa’ Allah, Goodbye, I’ll see you again if Allah has willed it…all things that shall happen being what God has foreordained, so that phrase of wishing, desiring, hoping for what is God’s will is always spoken in the past tense. So I guess that He did. It’s getting close now to forty years that he, the Goodness of God, shook my hand in Cairo and I have seen him many times since then.
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