Returning home with a few scratch marks, the time-teller would mark out a countdown for Zakoota jinn to grace the TV ... Karachi of the 1990s had a fragrance. For those who would like to take ...

By contrast, in the hadith we find all manner of telling titbits: for example, that Muhammad considered three things ‘most lovable in this world of yours’, namely, ‘perfume and women and prayer’, ...