Veiled Freedom by Jeanette Windle

Author:Jeanette Windle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Christian / General, FICTION / Religious
ISBN: 9781414333526
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2009-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

Jamil went back to reading. This time he returned to the beginning and read without skipping. There’d been a time when Jamil devoured learning, relished pushing his sharp mind to its limits. Then an aeon when he’d schooled himself not to think at all. To maintain his mind assiduously blank and so survive horrors within and without.

But now curiosity and the old thirst for understanding were rekindling in him. If Ameera was a Christian, and a Christian was truly and simply no more than a follower of the prophet Isa Masih, Jesus the Christ, then to know what that meant, he had to know who this Jesus was.

That his predominant interest was to make sense of this very unusual woman, Ameera, who had entangled herself inextricably into his life, Jamil could admit. Yet as he read, the personage slowly emerging from shadows to sharp focus on these pages was fascinating, so that Jamil found he was no longer reading to wear himself into dreamless slumber nor thinking of Ameera at all.

Why Ameera had chosen this prophet to emulate was easy to understand. Isa’s compassion for the sick and hungry never faltered. Yet the prophet was not always meek and mild as Jamil had first considered. He spoke up with uncompromising wrath against the Pharisees and teachers of the law, who seemed to be the Taliban and religious police of his day. Jamil approved when the prophet picked up a whip against those who enriched themselves from worshipers going up to pray. Were there not merchants even today who grew fat off credulous and desperate pilgrims swarming saints’ tombs and holy places in search of miracles and answered prayers?

That the rulers did not kill him, unarmed though he stood before them, suggested the protection and favor of angels. Perhaps though he wielded no sword nor conquered territory for Allah, Isa had his own strength.

And his teachings! Some thundered with the power and fury of a mountain storm. Others were stories that one might tell to a child. And yet, like the one he’d read of treasure hidden in a field, the more Jamil pondered them, the more hidden meaning they seemed to contain.

Jamil pored over Isa’s teachings on prayer. He’d wondered just what it was Ameera did while Jamil and the others were prostrate on their faces. True merit-earning prayer followed a strict pattern of posture and recited words, and at first the model Isa had given his disciples didn’t seem a prayer at all.

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