Chapter 11: A Brave Heart
Shi Shaoying was woken up by the rustling sound outside, and subconsciously glanced at the skylight welded with a steel fence above his head, the sky outside was already as white as a fish's belly, but the sun had not yet revealed the clouds, and now it was between dawn and sunrise, which should be almost 5:45, which was the time for those Islamic believers to do "Morning Fajr".
As a faithful follower of Islam, there are detailed and strict rules when praying, and if broken down, there are five conditions.
The first is "clean clothing," which means that they must wear clean clothes during prayer.
The second is "water purification", in the eyes of Islamic believers, water is pure, and the use of "ghusl" and "ghodo" can not only cleanse the body, but also cleanse people's minds;
The third is "clean place," which means that the place where they worship must be clean.
The fourth is "lifting the mind", that is, worshippers need to make a will in their hearts before worshipping, similar to the prayers we usually pray to the gods of the nine heavens when we usually go to the temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha.
The fifth is the "time recognition", in which Islamic believers pray to their true God at five different times a day.
The sixth is the "pilgrimage", in which they do not simply kneel on the ground when praying, but must face the "Mecca". Mecca is the birthplace of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and Abraham also built a "holy church" out of stone here, which is a holy place in the hearts of every Islamic believer. If you stand on Chinese soil, the direction of Mecca, is on the west side.
Even in prison, the Islamic believers did not give up prayer.
Somalia is located in Africa, which has been plagued by drought, and the terrorists and rebels in prison certainly do not have enough clean water. They have no way to wash their clothes in time, nor can they do "water purification". But human ingenuity and ingenuity are boundless, and before five o'clock the prisoners in the public cells spread their clothes open, carried the corners of their clothes, and poked them out of the iron gates, allowing them to be baptized by the wind.
Don't underestimate this almost comical "wind bath", keeping your clothes clean and tidy will reduce the chance of skin infections and prevent parasite breeding. In prisons, where the density of people is too high, and the spread of infectious diseases is easier and more violent, daily "wind baths" can help them maintain their health to the maximum.
After the clothes are "washed", those believers will ** their bodies, slowly open their arms, let the cool wind pass over their skin, sweep away the confusion and tiredness of waking up from the morning sleep, and then change into the clothes that have just been "bathed" and have the unique vigor and coolness of the morning, they will kneel in the cleaned cell, face the direction of the holy city of Shengga, and start their morning prayer with the most devout attitude.
There are four prayers in Islam, two of the Sunnahs and two of the commandments of Allah. Each prayer action is divided into the "Six Rituals", also known as the "Six Mandates of Heaven". These six rituals are "raising hands", "upright", "chanting", "bowing", "prostrating", and "kneeling".
Their morning prayers, every link, every action was meticulous, and because of their piety, the attitude on each face's face was almost sacred.
Watching them bow their heads again and again in the direction of the holy city of Mecca, listening to the soft chanting from which position, Shi Shaoying must say that the 1.57 billion number of Islamic believers is a respectable and more formidable group!
They make up 23% of the total number of human beings, distributed in 204 countries and territories, and the vast majority of them attend worship every day, even when it is windy and rainy, and they will not stop and not flinch.
Shi Shaoying passed through a certain ethnic minority autonomous region in China during a certain mission, and repaired there for three days, when it was already a cold winter, the outdoor temperature reached minus 30 degrees Celsius, which can be described as dripping water into ice, when the believers participated in the assembly in the Sutian environment, they sat in a column in a regular manner, the cold wind blew their faces red, and their fingers froze, but so many people were quiet, no one complained, and no one exchanged ears.
At that time, the leaders of government departments who were invited to participate in the rally highly praised the unity and discipline of these compatriots, but Shi Shaoying, as a professional soldier, had just confronted East Turkestan terrorists on the border two days ago, and the smell of blood on his hands had not yet dissipated.
He got up at one o'clock in the middle of the night, sat down in front of the tattered wooden desk in the officers' dormitory, and wrote a 5,000-word essay entitled "On 'Worship' and the Characteristics of a Professional Soldier" with a fountain pen.
Shi Shaoying believes that faithful followers of Islam attend prayers on time every day, rain or shine, just like professional soldiers who attend various training on time every day in the barracks, which can cultivate the toughest nerves and the courage to overcome difficulties. With strong beliefs and the same values, even strangers they have never met, they can become dense brothers in the shortest possible time. They are fraternal, humble and tolerant of each other internally, and they have left too many human virtues to their brothers and sisters, but they have left the cruel and bloody side of mankind to the "enemy".
"Squeak......
The iron gate in front of him was suddenly opened.
It was only at this time that Shi Shaoying realized that he had been thinking too much just now, and he was sitting here in a daze, thinking about breakfast time all the time.
Shi Shaoying saw the cordial smiling face of the prison guard again, this time the prison guard brought a cake made of coconut meat, warm white rice porridge, pickles in a small plate, and two packs of three or five brand cigarettes. Finding that the prison guard's eyes had been rolling on the two packs of cigarettes, Shi Shaoying threw the two packs of cigarettes to the prison guards with a wave of his hand, and the prison guards put the cigarettes into their pockets with the fastest movements, and the smile on his face really looked like a blooming trumpet flower at this time.
The cake made of coconut meat bites in the mouth, it is very fragrant, and there is a slight sweetness, and the pickles in the small plate are meat and vegetarian, there are six kinds of them, and they are accompanied by white rice porridge, even if they eat smoothly, they can also coax the belly to be full, and it can be seen from these things that Sikong Bowen has put his mind to it.
Slowly eating a breakfast that may be unique in the whole prison, Shi Shaoying's time control ability is very strong, and at the same time as he put down the spoon, the iron barred cell door was opened again, and it was already time for the morning to let the wind out. Facing the prison guards who received enough gifts and had a courteous attitude, Shi Shaoying nodded to the prison guards as if he was living in a hotel and facing an uncle who was a waiter, wiped the corners of his mouth with a tissue, and walked out of the single cell with small steps.
The rest of the tableware will naturally be carefully cleaned up by the prison guard, you must know that this is Somalia and not China, and there are really few Sister Kaizi like Sikong Bowen who takes banknotes and gifts and stuffs them into the hands of these little people. It is because of the lack of "experience" and "experience" that this prison guard still maintains the innocence and simplicity that if he takes people's money, he must eliminate disasters for others.
Shi Shaoying walked slower than an eighty-year-old lady, God knows how long he would stay in this prison, as the saying goes, you can't have a full meal and knock on the rice bucket, of course, the slower you can enjoy the surrounding scenery, the better, you must not finish it in one day. Shi Shaoying had already figured out that today he would only admire one-fifth of the entire courtyard at most, so that he would have new surprises to discover in the next four days.
For this reason, Shi Shaoying even lowered his head, so that although he looked a little listless, but he could greatly reduce the field of vision of his eyes, and when he walked the same road tomorrow, his head would be raised a little higher, and maybe he would find more new things, so that he would not have to go to the two-fifths of the courtyard again.
Don't doubt that Shi Shaoying is the kind of person who can cook a pot of soup with a bun, write a military novel at the starting point, and the first novel was collected by 5,000 readers after writing 700,000 words, and everyone said that his book was "pounced", "dead", and "finished", he can still enjoy it, and finally kill a life in the hodgepodge of more than 100,000 authors, in general, the trump card "Xiaoqiang" with a super stinky temper and super patience!
A few pairs of shoes blocked in front of him, Shi Shaoying subconsciously took a few steps to the left, wanting to bypass the other party, but those pairs of shoes also followed his footsteps and continued to block in front of him with perseverance. After several times, Shi Shaoying, even if he was stupid, understood that he had met someone looking for a ballast.
Shi Shaoying slowly raised his head, and there were three people in front of him. The three of them all looked to be about thirty years old, only one had a thick beard, the other two had clean-shaven chins, and most importantly, the one standing to the left of Shi Shaoying was far less contoured than his companions in terms of facial lines.
He has a long face, low cheekbones, a medium-high but narrow nose bridge, and a Tungusic feature in some places, in other words, a "goose-long" face that is half east of the Great Wall of China, in Hebei or northwestern Shanxi.
But his eyes are deep, his eyebrows are high, and the tip of his nose is slightly curved, which makes it seem that he is of some Central Asian Altai ancestry.
Shi Shaoying quickly made a judgment: this man is a mixed-race child, his father should be Xinjiang**, and his mother is a Han from Hebei or Shanxi who migrated to Xinjiang.
The reason for this judgment is simple: the people who are being held in this prison are all linked to Islamic militant groups, one of whom is clearly half Han Chinese and half Arab...... 100% East Turkistan terrorists!
Moving on, if this mixed-race child had lived in Hebei or Shanxi since he was a child, there would have been no soil for terrorists to survive there; Going deeper, in the Chinese family, the father has the greatest influence on his son, and if his father is a Han Chinese, he found that his son dared to join the East Turkistan terrorist organization, and shouted every day to release other people's blood, but I was afraid that his old man would have already copied the rolling pin made of jujube wood at home and directly discounted this unscrupulous thigh.
The three people standing in front of Shi Shaoying would never have dreamed that they would not be pleasing to the eye, so they gathered around together, and the man who wanted the other party to make a fool of himself in public turned out to be such a troubled character.
found that Shi Shaoying had been looking at himself, the terrorist who was discriminated against in the East Turkistan terrorist organization because he had half Han blood in his blood, and his self-esteem was stronger than others, he immediately became a little annoyed, he opened his mouth in Mandarin that was not standard, and shouted: "Little bastard, what do you see?!" ”
Shi Shaoying replied with a smile: "Who is the little mongrel scolding?" ”
The terrorists on the left said tit-for-tat without thinking: "Little bastard scolds you!" ”
"Poof......
In front of everyone's eyes, Shi Shaoying burst out laughing on the spot.
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