Now, at his laptop, he typed the search: .

Abu Faisal was last. He gripped Omar’s hand with both of his. “I was wrong,” the old man said gruffly. “The Prophet said, ‘Make things easy, not hard.’ You made Jummah easy for our children.”

The masjid was full. Omar climbed the mimbar steps, his heart pounding. In his hand, not loose notes, but the printed PDF — English and Arabic side by side.

“ A’udhu billahi min ash-shaytan ir-rajim ,” he began in Arabic, his voice steady.