Lauren Booth with her Father Tony

the moments that really touched me were your moments with your father on his deathbed like that chapter that whole chapter was beautiful what I love about your memoir is there's this action there's craziness there's you know like almost chaos and then there's calm and in the middle of all of that there's you and it it feels very clear that a last pan at the ILA has taken you all around the world to bring you to him and that's how that's how I read your memoir but that moment with you and your father I felt like it was like a culmination of that was a gift I have to say that was one of the Grove Allah has given so many great gifts and and you can't count them just the fact I'm breathing here today and healthy and no major diseases you know Thank You Allah Thank You Sheikh Rolla is it is a miracle in many ways but when my dad and I hadn't spoken for two years before that exactly so in that context that that that meeting that Antonia and to get a call and say come and see him and say goodbye on his deathbed and you know my my ex-husband say saying beautifully malar bless him for this you're only there for one reason you're only there for one reason don't make it about the past don't don't make it you know don't make it like oh it's lovely to see you one reason talk he just that's it yeah Allah has given you this it's a gift and and to sit and hold my dad's hand and you know to recite al-fatiha and for him to say that's so beautiful and you're full of light and for him to feel that you know an Irish you know a man of Irish Catholic descent who who'd expressed you know real suspicion and a nervousness about what he thought Islam was you know the set of rules this domination of women all of these ideas and to when it came down to it for me to hold his hand and recite surah fatiha and just say how many gods are there dad and he looked at me and he said come on there's only there's no god but God from Layla hey Lola and then what about the profits you know son let Solomon and Adam they're all prophets and Jesus said listen kid Jesus was a prophet we know that he's not God and you just say Thank You Allah and then to have a dream off after he died of him being bathed by three Imams in a big palace was such a gift and hamdulillah and just to be there and to give him that love and and to really you know in my culture in the in the English heritage culture we don't talk about death the bit the big unknown the big unspoken you know we talk about Oh we'll have a big wake afterwards and we'll have a big party we'll all drink tm8 we'll drink to your memory we'll get drunk and remember it's like what even is that and then you know the moment of death being all let's play music so you can remember me what no I said to my dad and it was the hardest thing I've had to say I'm here because I love you and I'm here because you're leaving he said I am I said yeah let's talk about God that's what we should be doing

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Length: 3min 23sec (203 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 24 2019