The story of the lamp
I first read this story in a footer of a translation of the Quran I bought on an overseas trip. It’s quite a popular translation. It seems like a rather straight-forward story at first but the more I think about it the stranger I realise it actually is. There was once a man who was so busy one evening he that forgot the time for evening prayers was upon him and only remembered when he heard the call to prayer from a nearby mosque....