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CHAPTER 5 – TWO SHIRTS OF FLAME 
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they have done to me ( she was showing to me the inside of her arms, and 
her bleeding feet), they attacked me with the cattle goad. 
As Cennet was about to explain some things in this way we saw many 
villagers, women, men and children running towards us from left and 
right.
----Come, get into the tent, I told her.
Cennet accepted my warning with great agitation. The villagers 
surrounded me immediately, they were all in great excitement, there were 
tears in the children’s eyes, the women were pale white and their lips 
trembled, the men’s eyes were seeing red. They started shouting all 
together, explaining something to me. But it was not possible to deduce 
any meaning from these general cries. Barely holding back my laughter I 
said: 
----Only one of you speak!
At that moment a rough and rude middle aged woman separated herself 
from the middle of the crowd and came forward towards me.
We caught her with our hands, she said. With the son of Usta Ömer… 
Under the ridge …the son of Usta Ömer… still yesterday's child he has 
no hair no spots …she dragged the child by force…I swear to God, Sir, 
by force… with her own husband’s son (and turning back), there, his 
mother here too … 
One more woman comes emerging from the crowd and completes what 
the first woman had said in a darker manner. Then a man joins in… I am 
in exactly the same circumstances as was Jesus when surrounded by 
those who complained of the adulterous Samaritan
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woman. If I were to 
repeat the words of the merciful and compassionate Prophet (he that is 
without sin among you let him first cast a stone at her!) would they 
understand and become silent? 
No… no way, suddenly a strong wind of wrath wrapped everyone with 
great force. Shall I hand over the victim to calm this excessive rage? I 
suddenly gathered all my will and with a commanding manner not at all 
natural to me:
---You go away now, we will see to her punishment. I said. 
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The woman taken in adultery in John 8 is merely adulterous and not a Samaritan. Yakup Kadri must have 
confused her with the woman of Samaria in John 4 who had had many husbands. Presumably he had a memory of 
the Scripture classes from his French school.

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