雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第7章:穆夫提(9)
The mullah clearly wasn’t happy as he wanted the school closed altogether. But the elders were happy with this compromise and they left.
賈蘭穆拉罕明顯對此很不高興，因爲他想逼學校關門大吉。但是長者們聽到這樣的讓步，便滿意地離開了。
My father suspected this would not be the end of the matter. What we knew and they didn’t was that the mufti’s own niece attended the school in secret. So a few days later my father called the mufti’s elder brother, the girl’s father.
父親懷疑這件事不會就此結束。我們知道一件賈蘭穆拉罕不知道的事，就是他自己的侄女也祕密地在我們學校上課。所以幾天後，父親把他的哥哥，也就是女孩的父親找了來。
‘I am very tired of your brother,’ he said. ‘What kind of mullah is he? He’s driving us crazy. Can you help to get him off our backs?’
“你弟弟的行爲讓我感到不勝其煩，”父親說，“他到底是哪門子穆夫提？簡直快把我們逼瘋了。你可以幫我們解決這個問題嗎？”
‘I’m afraid I can’t help you, Ziauddin,’ he replied. ‘I have trouble in my home too. He lives with us and has told his wife that she must observe purdah from us and that our wives must observe purdah from him, all in this small space. Our wives are like sisters to him and his is like a sister to us, but this madman has made our house a hell. I am sorry but I can’t help you.’
“恐怕我是幫不上你的忙了，齊亞烏丁。”他答道，“我家裏也存在同樣的問題。他和我們住在一起，儘管這個瘋子已經快把我們家裏變得和地獄沒什麼兩樣了，但我們的太太關係很好，沒法分開。很抱歉我沒辦法幫上你的忙。”
My father was right to think this man was not going to give up – mullahs had become more powerful figures since Zia’s rule and campaign of Islamisation.
而父親認爲這個人不會就此善罷甘休的想法後來果然應驗了。在齊亞·哈克推動伊斯蘭化的背景下，賈蘭穆拉罕的勢力越來越壯大了。
