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She in turn liked Petra and the relationship with her became much stronger than it had ever been with Anna, but she would not talk about the past, either of her real parents or her foster parents. She appeared to have locked that part of her life away in her own private world. Nadim noticed Petra’s influence on Magda. The change from the strange withdrawn girl he had decided to spare some three years previous was quite marked and he was pleased. His plans for the future appeared to be on track.
Magda gradually tired of trying to get Fuad’s attention and worked out that his needs were being fulfilled elsewhere so she returned to her training and her studies. Nadim fulfilled his promise and had her taught the ways of Islam, the religion based upon the Koran and the examples of conduct from the messenger Muhammad’s life, the Sunna, or Hadith. She learnt from the teachings that there is only one God and that the God of Judaism and Christianity is the same as the God of the Koran, but that the teachings of the two religions are corrupted by man.
This fact was driven home to him once when he had been away for some weeks. When he returned Petra welcomed him with an affectionate embrace. Magda was watching and when Petra moved aside he opened his arms and gestured to Magda just as a joke at first. To his surprise she gave him a warm, radiant smile and rushed into his arms calling out as she ran. ’ There were tears of joy in her eyes as she hugged him tightly. ’ Nadim who was normally a man of little emotion, usually noted as being a deep thinker but also cold and calculating, was visibly moved by this show of affection.
