Bayram Namazi
I sat in the corner. I was not concentrating nor taking notes. [I am now a bad field worker. Do as I say, not as I do.] Disastrous.
i(Hoca) began by a talk (?spontaneous) about Bayram and the Sacrifice (no, I do not think it was spontaneous - prepared by Duunil Ileri?)
Then two rekat. Then he mounted the mimber and gave a talk in Turkish exhorting love and peace etc. Then "okusmu" in Arabic. As he came down, another voice
from the front row took over - very musical.
Then they broke up and the young rushed for the exit. The old and some middle aged stayed "bayramlamak". I stood still and greeted everyone I could. i(0160
Murat Isik) came to me and ordered me to repeat some Arabic. I said I simply could not. He said "camiden{?} ok". This went on for some time, then he
started saying what I had to repeat phrase by phrase, so I did as I was told. When I finished I realised that many of the others were including these phrases
in their greetings, and one or two, - i(0160 Murat) had of course gathered an audience by his noisy insistence - used them again in greeting me.
i(0185 A.O.) on the way back to his house said that anyone who said what i(0160 Murat) had forced me to say thus became a Muslim; he then once again lectured
me on the importance to my eternal welfare of becoming a Muslim. He was quite serious, but I simply kept quiet.
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