![]() ![]() They told us children to pray for them, because children's prayers are answered most. Now more neighbors came knocking,asking us to pardon past misdeeds. When I looked outside I saw people praying in the street. There was shouting across the neighborhood. ![]() Though it was barely twilight, the muezzin suddenly called for prayer-not one mosque calling carefully after the other, as they usually did, but all the mosques clamoring all at once, all over the city. He said it was the Day of Judgment, when the Quran says the sun will rise from the west and the seas will flood, when all the dead will rise and Allah's angels will weigh our sins and virtue, expediting the good to Paradise and the bad to Hell. There was a frantic knocking on the door.When I opened it, our neighbor asked if we were safe. Late one afternoon it became visible: a dark shadow moving slowly across the face of the pale moon in the darkening blue sky. “On September 16,1978, there was an eclipse of the moon in Riyadh. ![]()
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