Amr b. Meymûn isimli bir talebesi şöyle bir itirafta bulunur: "Neredeyse bir yıl İbn Mes'ûd'un yanından hiç ayrılmadım. Bu bir yıl içerisinde birkaç defa dışında Kale Resûlullah (sas)/Allah Resûlü dedi ki' dediğini ancak duydum. O 'Kale Resûlullah' dediğinde biz öleceğini zannederdik. Terlerdi, sıkılırdı, bütün vücudu titrerdi, sonra hadis söyler, arkasından Allah'a sığınırdı."
Asra yemin olsun ki, insanlık zarardadır. Ancak, iman edenler, iyi (salih) amel işleyenler, birbirlerine hakikati tavsiye edenler, birbirlerine sabrı tavsiye edenler bunun dışındadır.» (Asr: 1-3)
Jim not that way Jim. That's no way to treat a garage door, bending stiffly down at the waist and yanking at the handle so the door jerks up and out jerky and hard and you crack your shins and my ruined knees, son. Let's see you bend at the healthy knees. Let's see you hook a soft hand lightly over the handle feeling its subtle grain and pull just as exactly gently as will make it come to you. Experiment, Jim. See just how much force you need to start the door easy, let it roll up out open on its hidden greasy rollers and pulleys in the ceiling's set of spiderwebbed beams. Think of all garage doors as the well-oiled open-out door of a broiler with hot meat in, heat roiling out, hot. Needless and dangerous ever to yank, pull, shove, thrust. Your mother is a shover and a thruster, son. She treats bodies outside herself without respect or due care. She's never learned that treating things in the gentlest most relaxed way is also treating them and your own body in the most efficient way. It's Marlon Brando's fault, Jim. Your mother back in California before you were born, before she became a devoted mother and long-suffering wife and breadwinner, son, your mother had a bit part in a Marlon Brando movie. Her big moment. Had to stand there in saddle shoes and bobby sox and ponytail and put her hands over her ears as really loud motorbikes roared by. A major thespian moment, believe you me. She was in love from afar with this fellow Marlon Brando, son. Who? Who. Jim, Marlon Brando was the archetypal new-type actor who ruined it looks like two whole generations' relations with their own bodies and the everyday objects and bodies around them. No? Well it was because of Brando you were opening that garage door like that, Jimbo. The disrespect gets learned and passed on. Passed
Spoiler!!!
Hattie’s endeared herself to me by throwing in a tip sometimes. Not with my wages, which she pays directly to my mother, but by slipping me a little something on the sly. A handful of cracked corn I can take to Lenore Dove for her geese, a packet of yeast I can barter with at the Hob, and today a pint of white liquor for my own use. She gives me her broken-toothed grin and says, “Happy birthday, Haymitch. I figure if you’re old enough to make it, you’re old enough to drink it.”
I have to agree and, though I’m not a drinker myself, I’m glad to get the bottle.