Suraiya's Story
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There used to live a Muslim woman in a small town of India. Her name was Suraiya. She was blind, deaf and voiceless. This meant that she couldn't see, hear or talk. Her husband suddenly died through an accident. Now, she was needed to be told that her husband has died. How can this be done?
Answer
One would come to Suraiya and break the bangles that she would be wearing on her hands. In India, there is a ritual that when a Muslim woman becomes a widow, she breaks her bangles.
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gladiator1442
Jul 25, 2002
| but how would she know that her bangles have been broken? |
Gizzer
Jul 29, 2002
| There is also a form of sign language for the deaf-blind. |
bmotts
Jul 29, 2002
| You could make her eat or smell her dead husband.. These things always talk for themselves! |
Mogmatt16 
Aug 07, 2002
| or use braile, i don;t know how'd she learn it but maybe. |
Fitz
Aug 07, 2002
| Kill her, so that she goes to heaven and is able to see her husband!! |
bluetwo
Aug 21, 2002
| gladiator, just because she can't see or hear doesn't mean she can't FEEL or TOUCH. |
mozven
Sep 02, 2002
| Voiceless, aka mute. She wouldn't know braille, being from a small village. Maybe there could be an emergency slapping language. This language could have been established prior to the loss of the three communicative senses. For instance, one slap would mean there has been an emergency. She would then slap back once, meaning what happened. Then two slaps mean her husband is sick, three slaps means her husband is missing, four slaps her husband is dead, and so on... But, what if she had no hands! Whoa... |
PhilDunphy
Apr 02, 2003
| This wouldn't work if she had been all of these things from birth, as how would she know of this ritual. |
SPUTNIK2 
Mar 20, 2006
| very interesting, i liked it alot, thanks  |
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