A Book About Bread
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Welcome. More than eleven hundred years ago, in the city of Baghdad, the scholar we call al-Muhasibi, the one who holds himself to account, sat down to write about something very ordinary. Bread.
Not bread as food alone. Bread as a question. Where does my loaf come from? How did I earn it? And what does it do to my heart?
He begins, as he always does, with Allah. The One who created the heavens and the earth. Who formed each of us in the darkness of the womb, and sent our food to us there, where no father or mother could reach.
Then He made us bodies that cannot stand without food. And He promised. In the heaven is your provision, and what you are promised. By the Lord of heaven and earth, it is true, as true as the fact that you speak.
There is no creature on the earth, he recites, whose provision is not upon Allah.
So why, he asks, do we worry so much about bread? And why do we care so little about whether it is clean? That is what this book is about.
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