Allah

Dana is my three-year-old niece. A great conversationalist I tell you, who speaks in the sing songy Bahraini accent of yesteryear. Don't where where she picked it from, but it is a mix between Riffa3i and Muharraqi. hehe .. too alien to my Ba7rani ears!

I enjoy chatting to her on MSN, on quiet days, when I manage to get her attention from slaying the monsters and squashing the beasts in her computer games.

Dana: Auntie Amoor.. Will you slay the monster? (Khalah Amoor.. eddeb7een el wahsh?)
Amira: No Dana. I will leave that to Allah. (la Dana. Allah yakhdheh)
Dana: Why? Do you have an Allah in Canada? (laysh..intu 3indikum Allah fee Canada?)

hehe
Just as her toddler brother thinks I am inside the computer, she thinks that Allah is restricted to Bahrain!

Had she been older I would have grilled her! What makes her think there is an Allah in Bahrain only? Or Allah in the whole of the Middle East, where the most Allah-fearing people live under the most Allah-doesn't-matter-to-us-regimes in the world!

But she is only a child and we are all His children.. and one day.. just one day.. we will be able to grow up and deserve to be treated like adults!