The merchant hesitated. He took the player, turned it over, pressed play. The recitation of Surah Ad-Duha filled the air:
Years later, Youssef grew up to become a teacher of Quran in the same neighborhood. On his desk, still held together by tape, sat the small cassette player. It no longer worked — the belts had perished, the batteries corroded. But he kept it as a reminder. thmyl-alqran-alkrym-bswt-abd-albast-abd-alsmd-bhjm-sghyr
“What do you have there, child?”