1 ‘ Life Is a Test , the Hereafter Is the Best ’
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The presence of Umar,1 a zealous Gambian Muslim in his early thirties, filled my host’s living room with a pious atmosphere. When my host offered him a seat on the couch, Umar declined, claiming that he – following the Prophet Muhammad’s example – preferred to sit on the floor. He also declined the bottle of Fanta soft drink my host offered him, saying that he preferred drinking water. As the Prophet was believed to do, he drank from the cup of water in three sips. Taking a quick glance at the television featuring a Chinese fighting film, Umar shook his turbaned head and asked my host to switch off the set so that he could pray. Before he left – leaving my host with a sense of failure at not being able to live up to the ideals of Islam – Umar gave me advice in the form of a word game, while looking at the ground since a man is not allowed to look into the eyes of a woman to whom he is not married:
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