After a morning Tabaski mass prayer and the slaughtering of our goat, Aimée and I went to say hi to my counterpart at his newly repainted and cemented house.
The Imam's sermon after morning prayer was remarkably existential, he noted that many of the folks who prayed last year on Tabaski had left us, and were not there to pray this year. Given this fact, the Imam continued, we should all attempt to do as much good as possible while we are still alive here on Earth, because a Tabaski will come around when we too will no longer be able to attend prayer.
