First Grain of Sand — Page 83
CHAPTER TEN Soviet Pressure Intensifies A t this time, Abdul Qadir, the local Tashkent man who was sent as a spy to investigate me while disguised as an inmate, was now revealed to be very duplicitous. This is the same man who, after spending considerable time inquisi- tively asking all variety of questions on topics that were relevant to Islamic clergy at that time, praised me openly as being a great scholar and ordered for not only Rumi's book, Masnawi, to be provided to me but also that food from outside the prison facility to be offered to me. He is the same man who called me a great scholar whose knowledge of the Quran and Hadith was so high that it far surpassed Tashkent's most renowned scholar, named Mullah Shami. The more he praised me, the more the government began to grow in their suspicion of me. They began to wonder that if I am such a great scholar and wise man, why did I attempt to enter their country without a passport and that I must be hiding my true intent. Despite this, the head officer of the prison asked other guards about me and summoned other prisoners one at a time to