IN STEREO

Shall I tell you another story? About the area [and] about my grandfather, may he rest in peace. My grandfather, the father of my father, used to plant Egyptian cucumber and tomatoes and I don’t know what in the land. They were planting on springs. [He worked on it] daily because I’m telling you, the soil was fertile there, really good. He was very, very religious. I mean, he feared his God, you see? People started to say my grandfather was the richest one in the area because he was very devout.

Every day, in the morning he went down to pick the harvest and go to sell it [in] Jerusalem. People were stealing from him. They’d pick in the afternoon. He knew that people picked from [his] land. He knew that people were stealing from him. But he just used to say, “The money of dunya [the earthly realm] is for dunya.” He was [one of] ‘those who curb their anger and those who forgive people’ [as the Quran says]. – Um Mustafa