Learning that Good Friday is the most solemn day of penance for Catholics and that her friends won’t be available to hang out, Kismetta decides to attend the youth meeting held at her mosque after Friday prayers. When the Assistant Imam makes claims that Iimi had previously debunked, she finds herself called to ask questions about Muslim assumptions about Christianity.
After the meeting, she has more questions…
Preliminary Notes
Kismetta’s thoughts are built on several dialogues between her and Iimi. If you think Kismetta is moving too fast in her reasoning and overlooking things, you might want to review the following comics:
It’s Iimi! Issue Zero Part II(The first comic, introducing Kismetta.)
It’s Iimi! Lesson One: Knowing That We Don’t Know
It’s Iimi! But Where Does That Leave You?
It’s Iimi! Conflicted
It’s Iimi! Paradigm Shift
It’s Iimi! Bus-Stop Battle
It’s Iimi! Coffee Clash
It’s Iimi! The Riddle (The references to “CS Lewis’ Bridge”)
It’s Iimi! Bear One Another’s Burdens
It’s Iimi! Ascetics’ Aesthetics
It’s Iimi! A Day in the Life of the Iscra Family
Post-Comic Notes:
You may have noticed the symbols (ﷺ) and (ﷻ) popping up in the comic.
Zooming in to a larger size, they look like this:
(ﷺ) (ﷻ)
The left one is the Arabic form of PBUH, which stands for sallallahu alayhe wasallam (sometimes abbreviated “SAW.”) While researching Islam, I have encountered Muslim scholars who hold that the symbol should be used instead of PBUH or SAW. Curiously, there is not a symbol for SWT, though there is one for ﷻ [Jallajalaalhu = May his glory be glorified].
Obviously, such a debate over what is properly respectful within Islam is outside of my field of expertise. I simply use these two symbols with the imam and his assistant to symbolize that they are intended to speak properly according to the conventions of Islam while the teenagers are still learning and may not be as precise.
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