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Rachid Oulebsir

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A true story! Tazmalt 1974 (Algeria)! A young student from the village returned from England with his young English wife! Tragic car accident in Palestro, near Algiers, the capital! The couple died on the spot .The funeral was held according to the Maliki rite in force in Kabylia in the wake of the usual clothes and Koranic chants! Suddenly one of the imams had stopped and refused to recite the Dikr rite, the parables of the Koran called "Surat" and ordered: "The coffin of the English wife must leave the room, I refuse to read the Qur'an for a disbeliever" Having said that, one of the coffins is released into another dark room! All night until "the sheikhs in the morning recite" surat "blessing, the songs were interspersed with long interludes in which the sheikhs and storytellers consumed sweets, pastries and honey cakes to keep their throat! Dawn it has its lights and to the dismay of the imams it was discovered that the coffin on which recited the Koran was not that of the Algerian husband but of his English wife! sheiks recited the Koran throughout the night for the English woman! hand invisible foreign will hit? providence, a divine correction? imams, culled have kept their mouths sewn the taste of honey at night.
Rachid Oulebsir
Translated by
Slimane Melab