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Wouldn’t it be great if you could read an entire book, not understand a word of it, and still get credit for reading it? Sometimes meeting a religious requirement is exactly that. Nadia describes her childhood experiences with reading the Quran in Arabic, then English, while navigating being a teenager in Miami, Florida.
By Nadia Zareen and Cedric JosephWouldn’t it be great if you could read an entire book, not understand a word of it, and still get credit for reading it? Sometimes meeting a religious requirement is exactly that. Nadia describes her childhood experiences with reading the Quran in Arabic, then English, while navigating being a teenager in Miami, Florida.