Alaa Al Aswany - The Yacoubain Building: A Novel - Taha in the camp lyrics

This is a quotation from Alaa Al Aswany's novel The Yacoubian Building in which Taha is adjusting to the regime at a camp where he has come to train with Islamists. “In the beginning, Taha felt constrained, but this went away as the days pa**ed and as he got used to the camp's strict regime- rising at dawn, performing the prayer, reciting the Qur'an, breakfast; then three hours of nonstop demanding exercise (physical fitness and martial arts). After this, the brothers gathered to take cla**es (Jurisprudence, exegesis, Qur'anic sciences, hadith ) given by Sheikh Bilala and other scholars (Al Aswany 204).