雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第9章:電臺毛拉(24)
His friend Hidayatullah told him to stand firm.
父親的朋友希達亞圖拉鼓勵他堅持自己的立場。
‘Ziauddin, you have charisma; you can speak up and organise against them,’ he said.
齊亞烏丁，你擁有領袖特質。你應該成爲民衆的代言人，號召大家跟他們抗衡。
‘Life isn’t just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide.
他說，人活着不應該只是吸進氧氣，呼出二氧化碳。
You can stay there accepting everything from the Taliban or you can make a stand against them.’
你可以選擇聽之任之，忍受塔利班加諸在你身上的一切，也可以選擇挺身而出，發出你自己的聲音。
‘Please don’t harm my children because the God you believe in is the same God they pray to every day.
致伊斯蘭游擊隊，你們目前的做法並非實踐伊斯蘭教義的正確方法。請不要傷害我的孩子們，因爲你們所信仰的真主，正是他們每天向其祈禱的真主。
You can take my life but please don’t kill my schoolchildren.’ When my father saw the newspaper he was very unhappy.
你們可以奪走我的性命，但請不要殺害我的學童們。當父親拿到報紙之後，他非常不開心。
The letter had been buried on an inside page and the editor had published his name and the address of the school, which my father had not expected him to do.
那封信被藏在內頁，而且主編還公開了他的姓名及學校校址，而父親壓根沒料到他會這麼做。
But lots of people called to congratulate him.
不過，很多人打電話向他祝賀。
‘You have put the first stone in standing water,’ they said.‘Now we will have the courage to speak.’
你在死水中投下了第一顆石頭，他們說，現在我們有勇氣站出來說話了。
