This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him today, and we will

eat my son tomorrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her
on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.

Kings 6 28,29

After praying the Isha’ prayer, he stood still in the pavilion, he stood till midnight,
he stood waiting and watching with his damaged eye the consolers who were
wearing blue Gelbabs.

1st apartment: 1st floor

He pushed the button. The sound of colored birds has replied to him. The door
was open in which a man who wears a bright shirt and trousers appeared. He
heard his mother and her twin sister’s voices crying, weeping and chanting the
virtues of his late father.

- What do you want?

- My father died, Abd ElMetal Pasha, and his memorial is after Isha’ prayers.

- (feeling sorry) God bless his soul (hesitated) Do you need anything?

- No, pasha. Thanks God, I found enough money to bury him.

Closed door

2nd apartment: 2nd floor

He pushed the button which was salient because it is rarely used. A teenager
opened the door. He remembered how he washed his father’s body and also
remembered his yellow covered coffin which he closed precisely with nails and
pouring on it melted lead.

- (annoyed) What do you want, Metwally?

- My father died, Mohsen Pasha and his memorial is after Isha’ prayers.

- (impatiently) And?!!

- (surprised) Mr. Mohsen, my father had always served you and protected
your property while you were abroad.

- (interrupting him) so what? My father and other owners were paying him
lots of money for that. And now. What do you want?

- I would like you to attend my father’s memorial.

- Why not…?!!!

Closed Door

3rd Apartment: 3rd Floor

He pushed the glowing button that has a lubricated touch. But no one has
answered him. He looked to the eagle which is eternally staring to its right
shoulder then he pushed the button again. The servant opened the door, her face
was full of pimples as a frontage of a building which is full of air conditioners. He
requested her employer who appeared before him after several minutes in which
he was wearing a face that was painted with the same color of his servant’s red
hair.

- What do you want?

- My father died, Abd ElHakim Pasha and his memorial is after Isha’
prayers.

- (surprised) Who are you and who is your father?

- I am Metwally, son of AbdElMalik.

- …………………………

- The doorkeeper, Pasha.

- Of what?

- Of this building, Pasha.

- Aha, and what do you want?

- My father just died, Pasha, and I……

Closed Door

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I will only tell you the story about how Abd ElMalik died because I just found out
that there is still some space in this page.. so this is it:

Abd ElMalik was wondering how he is going to get money to pay for his young
daughter, Aisha, medical treatments when a car written on its rear windshields
“Police Academy” had hit him. This car was driven by Abd ElHakim Pasha’s son
who tried to miss falling into an open drain so he jumped on the pavement where
a man who was wearing a blue Gelbab was standing while question marks were
popping out of his head.