His sister, Amira, had been ill for months. Doctors offered no hope. He took a reed pen and carefully wrote her name in a pure, silent square: . He assigned the numbers. Then, he performed the Taksir —the reduction. He added the digits of her name's total until he arrived at a single number between 1 and 9. He got the number 3.
Farid wept.
For three days, nothing. On the fourth day, the "burning without heat"—the fever that no doctor could break—cooled. Her eyes fluttered open. She asked for water. ilm e jafar in english