Aduhh ini sajahh, lagi baca novel and the mountains echoed, and found this interesting "anecdote" from the novel which blew my mind:

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"If you look at any Muslim's palms, no matter where in the world, you will see something quite astonishing. They all have the same lines. Meaning what? Meaning that the lines on a Muslim's left hand make the Arabic number eighty-one, and the ones on the right the number eighteen. Subtract eighteen from eighty-one and what do you get? You get sixty-three. The Prophet's age when he died, peace be upon him.

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Now, one day a traveler was passing through, and, of course, he sat with Mullah Shekib for a meal that evening, as it custom. The traveler heard this story and he thought about it, and then he said, 'But, Mullah Shekib, with all due respect, I met a Jew once and I swear his palms bore the very same lines. How do you explain it?' And Mullah said, 'Then, the Jew was a Muslim at heart." :)

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