雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第9章:電臺毛拉(14)
He began building a vast red-brick headquarters in Imam Deri complete with a madrasa, a mosque and walls and levees to protect it from the Swat River.
法茲魯拉開始在伊滿德里以紅磚興建一棟巨大的總部，完工時會有一所伊斯蘭學校、一座清真寺、一堵高牆，和防止斯瓦特河氾濫的防洪堤。
No one knew where he got the cement and iron bars from but the workforce was local.
沒有人知道他是怎樣搞到水泥和鋼筋的，但工作都落到當地人的頭上。
Every village had to take turns sending their men for a day to help build it.
每一個村落都要輪流送他們的男丁去工地一天，幫忙建造。
One day one of our Urdu teachers, Nawab Ali, told my father, ‘I won’t be coming to school tomorrow.’ When my father asked why, he explained it was his village’s turn to work on Fazlullah’s buildings.
有一天，我們的烏爾都語老師納瓦.阿里告訴父親：我明天沒辦法來學校。父親問他爲什麼，他解釋說這次輪到他的村落要去幫法茲魯拉蓋房子。
‘Your prime responsibility is to teach the students,’ replied my father.
你最重要的責任是教導這些學生。父親這麼回答他。
‘No, I have to do this,’ said Nawab Ali.
不行，這件事我一定得去做。納瓦.阿里這樣回答。
My father came home fuming.
父親回到家，氣得七竅生煙。
‘If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year,’ he said.
如果人民願意用同樣的態度自動自發去蓋學校、鋪道路，或清理河中的塑料袋，老天啊，巴基斯坦在一年之內會變成天堂，
‘The only charity they know is to give to mosque and madrasa.’
他說，他們唯一知道的善行就是捐款給清真寺和伊斯蘭學校。
