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Short Stories (Stories for the Youth), book by Father Tadros Yacoub Malaty

309- God’s Computer More Accurate

St-Takla.org Image: Prison cell door - Kilmainham Gaol Museum, Dublin, Ireland - Photograph by Michael Ghaly for St-Takla.org, July 1, 2017. صورة في موقع الأنبا تكلا: أبواب حديدية لزنزانة - من صور متحف سجن كيلمينهام، دبلن، أيرلندا - تصوير مايكل غالي لموقع الأنبا تكلاهيمانوت، 1 يوليو 2017.

An intimate friendship grew between Dr. Milad Hana and me when we were detained in the cells of El-Marg prison. We talked to each other for thirty minutes daily during our daily compulsory walk. Dr. Hana is known for his sharpness and political experience especially because Dr. Hana and his wife had a strong relation with President Sadat and his wife.

Once he said to me, “According to the computer of my mind which will never fail me, President Sadat will surely order executing three Moslem and three Christian clergymen, as a kind of balance. As for you, if they’re kind to you, you’ll go out of prison after fifteen or eighteen years.”

I said, “My soul longs for Lord Jesus Christ. I’m prepared with joy to accept anything.”

 God’s providence let me meet Dr. Hana outside the prison. Then, I asked him, “What do you think now of the computer of your mind?”

He answered smilingly, “God’s computer is more accurate.”

→ English translation of the story here at St-Takla.org: كومبيوتر ربنا أدق.

+ How unsearchable are Your judgments. And Your ways passed finding out.

Grant me to understand the secret of Your plan,

And count on Your Divine computer.

Thank You for, You gave me Yourself O Wise.

Let me know how to work on the Divine Computer.

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