I have wanted to go to South Africa ever since reading about Nelson Mandela’s hard work for peace and his anti apartheid movement.

“Look, we are Muslims. A good Muslim always follows the Islamic rules. Give this letter to your father and tell him that he should not listen to music anymore.”

When we would go outside to the trees every evening to gather almonds and walnuts, she recited Hafiz’s poems along the way and I walked by her side.

I had some lambs and I thought that I had the whole world and happiness.

Usually a mullah has three or four wives, but still thinks about having more. They always say they are Mahram with all women.