A Story of my British Friend: A Prayer Book.

So this summer when he was visiting relatives in Khartoum (sp.?), my one (half British, half Sudanese) got a prayer book from one of his relatives to read, and he said he dug it out recently to read through it more because he really really likes it.

First, he said, when he was on the bus, everyone was looking at him since he was reading some book in Arabic.

Second, he said he finds a lot interesting since it's prayers for every occasion.

For example, under the section "meeting unbelievers", they suggest that instead of saying "God be with you", you say, "May God bless you", which implies "...with conversion" but doesn't come off that way.

They also have a lot of magical stuff, like what prayer to say if you hear a cock crow at night and you fear the invasion of evil spirits.

He said that he told his sister about that prayer, and asked that if she woke up at night at a cock crowing, did she think it was enough if she heard the prayer, or should she wake up her husband to say the prayer too so he could protect himself.

"That's not Islam," she was like. "That's rubbish."

"Oh no!", he was like, "I quite like it."