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The mosqueمسجد

Where the narrator went a few times under compulsion and lost himself looking at the glazed tiles.

The mosque, from The Blind Owl: ink-and-wash drawing
Kind
Place
Persian
مسجد
Also called
دیوار مسجد
First appears
P153.L08
Lines
3
GNML id
plc_mosque

In the scenes

Where the text names it

P153.L08

ولی هیچوقت نه مسجد و نه صدای اذان و نه وضو و نه اخ و تف انداختن و دولا راست شدن در مقابل یک قادر متعال و صاحب اختیار مطلق که باید به زبان عربی با او اختلاط کرد در من تأثیری نداشته است.

But neither the mosque nor the call to prayer nor ablution nor spitting and bending down and straightening up before an almighty being possessed of absolute power, with whom one must converse in Arabic, had ever had any effect on me.

P153.L09

اگرچه سابق بر این وقتی سلامت بودم چند بار اجبارا به مسجد رفته‌ام و سعی می‌کردم که قلب خود را با سایر مردم جور و هم‌آهنگ بکنم.

Although formerly, when I was well, I had gone to the mosque several times under compulsion and had tried to bring my heart into harmony with other people.

P153.L10

اما چشمم روی کاشی‌های لعابی و نقش و نگار دیوار مسجد که مرا در خواب‌های گوارا می‌برد و بی‌اختیار به این وسیله راه گریزی برای خودم پیدا می‌کردم خیره می‌شد.

But my eyes would become fixed on the glazed tiles and designs upon the mosque walls, which carried me into pleasant dreams, and thus, involuntarily, I found a way of escape for myself.

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