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Younger North American Muslims read the Qur'an in varied ways

Sufi Talks Author:Frager, Robert The A Deep Glossary ofOnce a woman brought her son to the thirteenth century Turkish Sufi master Nasruddin complaining that the boy had an uncontrollable sweet tooth. She asked Nasruddin to tell the boy to stop eating sweets. He said to bring him back in four weeks. When they returned he said, Boy, I order you to stop eating sweets! The mother asked, Couldnt you have said that at the beginning? Why make us wait four weeks? No, I couldnt have said that even two weeks ago,