Al-Biruni's gaze was that of a scholar measuring stars, but even he could not fully climb inside our pahad of faith. Ibn Battuta saw wonders, yet his eyes were a traveller's mirror, often reflecting the familiar shapes of his own world back onto ours. As for Bernier, he compared everything to a European garden, missing the wild kafal of our ways. This I know from my own namaaz in the hills—when a learned maulvi from the city visited, he called our old shrine a 'local custom', not seeing it was the same sky we prayed under.
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