يا بْنِي موسى ومحمد إخوة. واحنا هنربِّيك ونعلِّمك ونكبَّرك وإنت حر بعدها. عايز تدخل في دينَّا أهلًا وسهلًا وألف مرحب بيك. عايز تفضل مسلم إنت حر وإحنا برضه أهلك.

My son, Moses and Muhammad are brothers. We will raise you, teach you and bring you up, and after that you are free: if you want to enter our religion, welcome a thousand times; if you want to stay a Muslim, you are free, and we are still your family.

وكأن قدميَّ قد خفَّتا وأطير في الهواء. وأدخل دفعةً واحدة في بكاءٍ ونشيجٍ ولا أكفُّ عن الصياح بأعلى صوتي: لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله.

As if my feet had grown light and I were flying; all at once I broke into weeping and sobbing, and could not stop shouting at the top of my voice: there is no god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God.

الهداية من عند الله يا بْنِي. وبعدين أُمَّك مش كافرة زَيّ الراجل الناقص ده ما بيقول. أُمّك سِتَ من أهل الكتاب. ست طيبة وأبوها راجل طيب وعشرة ييجي تلاتين سنة.

Guidance comes from God, my son. And your mother is no infidel, whatever that wretch says. Your mother is a woman of the People of the Book, a good woman, and her father a good man, and we have been neighbors for nearly thirty years.