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A farmer, on a market day, stopped to eat in a crowded restaurant where even the city’s elite usually dined. The farmer found a place at a table where other patrons were already seated and placed his order with the waiter. When he had done so, he joined hands and recited a prayer. His neighbours observed him with amused curiosity; one young man asked him: A farmer, on a market day, stopped to eat in a crowded restaurant where even…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":21,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[1745,2627],"class_list":["post-13586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-night","tag-councils","tag-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cDo you always do this at home? Does everyone really pray?\u201d
The farmer, who had quietly begun to eat, answered:
\u201cNo, even at home there are some who do not pray.\u201d
The young man grinned:
\u201cOh yeah? Who doesn’t pray?\u201d
\u201cWell, continued the farmer, for example my cows, my donkey and my pigs….
I remember that once, after walking all night, we fell asleep at dawn near a grove. A dervish who was our travelling companion let out a cry and walked into the desert without resting for a single moment.<\/em>
<\/em>When it was daylight, I asked him:<\/em>
<\/em>\u201cWhat happened to you?\u201d<\/em>
<\/em>He answered:<\/em>
<\/em>\u201cI saw nightingales chirping in the trees, I saw partridges in the mountains, frogs in the water, and animals in the woods. I thought then that it was not right that all were intent on praising the Lord, and that I alone slept without thinking of him.\u201d<\/em>
<\/em>(Sudi)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"