"As-salāmu `alaykum. Peace be upon you, my friends. Come now. Sit! Sit! And let me tell you of a tale. This is no story of jinn or magic horses. The thieves I will speak of number greater than forty and did more horrible things than any bedtime story may speak of. I shall not tell you of any secret word which will open to a cave of wonders. For this story is real!"
"Which makes it all the more entrancing..."
"Our story begins some time ago. Four hundred and twenty three years after our Prophet Muhammad - peace be upon him - migrated to the radiant city of Medina from Mecca, there lived a raider who had wandered both far from home and God. This is a story of a father's sinful life, his son's sinful life, and the journey and friends which brought redemption to both of them..."
Ihsan
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