Amy was a rich American girl in her early 20s on vacation in Egypt. It was a solo trip planned after breaking up with her boyfriend of 2 years. She needed a change of scenery to forget about her ex and possibly to meet somebody. She was from a very Christian family in rural Texas but became very superficial and arrogant growing up. In her eyes all that mattered was being attractive and confident, and she had the whole package.
She was casually strolling along the beach in a very crowded area wearing a skimpy black bikini to show off her toned body when an old local man who was sipping some tea in the shadow began complained about the lack of decency these foreigners were showing when visiting the country and addressed in his poor English: “You must show less skin! Women modest here!”.
“Get lost, old man!” – replied to him Amy – “I have no time to waste listening to you! You’re just envious women don’t look that good in this shithole country!” – needless to say, she was also quite racist. “I can’t stand these towel heads!” – she thought.
The old man, angry and humiliated, walked away cursing the young woman and headed to the nearest Mosque. There, he asked Allah to teach a lesson to that arrogant infidel woman, who showed no respect to the glorious country and people of Egypt.

The old man’s prayers were not unnoticed by the Almighty.
Amy kept on walking along the beach when she began feeling a little weird. Unnoticed by her, her hair turned brown and her skin tanned slightly. Her eyes also gained some pigment, becoming green. She still looked like a white girl but nobody would have recognised her for who she was. The curse was starting to have effect although she was still oblivious to it.
She thought she was just a little dehydrated so she sipped some water she had with her and laid down on the sand to have some rest. The dizziness waned a bit while a sense of fatigue took over her. She laid down on the sand and dozed off.
Meanwhile, the old man was still praying in the mosque. “In the Name of God, the Infinitely Good, the All-Merciful. Make this infidel woman one of our sister and take the arrogance and sinful nature away from her.”
While laying down, her skin tanned even further, until she was much more than she had ever been. Her hair darkened to a rich jet black color and curled up to become frizzy. Her eyebrows quickly darkened too to match her hair. Her tiny nose grew more pointy, giving her a distinctive Arab look. To complete the transformation, her green eyes became hazel, then brown and finally black and took a vaguely oriental shape, her lips became fuller while still looking natural.

Amy, now looking 100% Arab, woke up feeling much better and decided to walk back to her hotel. Still under the influence of an odd daze, she didn’t notice most of the changes occurred to her, she only realised how tanned she’d become, and thought “Wow, the sun is so strong down here! I’m going to look gorgeous with my new tan!”.
To complete his prayer, the old man added “Open her heart to the Quran and its language! Glorious is my Lord the most great!”. He stood up and left the Mosque, confident that his prayers were not left unanswered.

Indeed, the changes weren’t over yet though as Amy’s brain was beginning to replace her native English with Arabic, until she had the Arabic proficiency of a native speaker and only the basic English knowledge a local girl could have learned at school and from movies.
On her way back to the hotel, a group of young Egyptian men complimented her on her looks with whistles and loud comments.
“How dare they? Wait, were they talking in Arabic to me? How did I understand that?” – she thought, not realising that she was even thinking in Arabic now. As she regained more mental clarity she began noticing how her frizzy hair was tingling her shoulders. Initially she thought the sea humidity had affected her hair but when she grabbed it she was shocked at noticing how completely different it looked compared to her usual hair.
Freaking out, she rushed to her hotel, where the receptionist looked at her, surprised to see an Arab girl dressed like that. She entered her room and rushed to the bathroom to inspect herself.

She stared at herself in utter disbelief. Staring back at her was a complete stranger, a young woman with very distinctive Arab or North African features. Moving her head and body and seeing a brown girl’s reflection in the mirror moving accordingly was a surreal experience. She spent several minutes staring at her reflection without being able to utter a single word. She took her bikini off to inspect her intimate parts, to find that her aureolas had become dark brown and her pubic hair black and curly.
She was not only shocked by her identity having been stolen but also by the fact that she had been turned into one of the Arab women she used to look at with arrogance and prejudice.
“Kayf hadath hadha?” – she asked herself loudly- how did this happen? Hearing the harsh Arabic sounds coming out of her mouth instead of the smooth valley girl English accent she was accustomed to shocked her. She brought her brown hands to her mouth and tried to speak English again. “My English is corr… corrupted?” – she said, mortified at how thick her Arabic accent was. Great, she also sounded like a local now.
She tested her English knowledge and found it to be very limited. For many words she only knew the Arabic version now, to the point that she could only think in Arabic first and the translate in English later.

She slowly dressed up again and sat at the desk, without knowing what to do next. She noticed a copy of the Quran which was always present in hotel rooms in the Islamic country and felt compelled to open it randomly, just to distract herself from her situation. She suddenly realised she could even read the Arabic script now. Her dark eyes got caught by a very specific surah: “Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.” With a gasp she closed the Holy Book and thought “No, that can’t be possible! Dear God help me, I don’t want to become a Muslim!” She tried to recall any Christian prayer from her childhood but as she began to say one of them she realised that even those had been replaced by Surah from the Quran. In fact, everything she knew about Jesus now was from the Quran, where he was describes as Isa. Funny enough, for an all-American party girl like her, she had the knowledge of a practicing Muslim. She felt so violated even in her thoughts she felt like not much of her was left intact by this incredible curse.
She was still struggling to accept what was happening to her but she had to concede that something supernatural was going on. One does not change ethnicity naturally. Maybe Allah was indeed real and she had offended him with her behaviour.

She grabbed her curly hair and tried to think through her situation. She recalled the old man and realised he must have cursed her or something. She thought that maybe leaving the country would make the curse vanish, so she anticipated her return fight to that afternoon, put on some sporty gear and headed to the airport. In order to not get caught by the hotel receptionist, who had already looked suspiciously at her, she left most of her luggage in the hotel room and left with a light backpack.
At the airport, she tried to casually go though security showing her passport but as she now looked completely different from the picture, they rejected her and took away her passport, assuming it had been stolen. In fact, she was lucky they didn’t arrest her. Still, hesitation was very precarious. Stuck there with no documents and little money left, Amy sat in despair, wondering what to do next.
As the clothed had gotten dirty, she changed into the other outfit she had brought with her and took the subway back to the city, where she would figure out what to do.

On her way back from the airport, Amy noticed the old man who had cursed her from the subway window. She got off at the next stop and began searching for him. She finally managed to find him and told him “’ana alfatat fi albikini! aunzur madha hadath lay!” – I am the girl in bikini! Look what has happened to me!
The old man smiled and laconically commented that Allah is the best planner. As he was about to leave her there and walk away, she sat aside all her pride, went down on her knees and begged him to help her as she had lost her passport and was almost out of money. The old man felt sorry for her, told her to show up in the same place the day after at the same time, this time dressed in decent Islamic covering and he would see what he could do to help her out.
Mortified, Amy spent her last money on a coat covering her body shape and a headscarf and headed back to her hotel, where she spent the evening learning how to style it. Never in a million years she thought she would ever have to cover her hair with a headscarf.

Amy had to admit that now she could fit in much better with the local population as nobody would notice one more Arab girl dressed in an Islamic fashion.
The man was waiting for her at the same place as the day before.
She humbly bowed her head and told him, in Arabic: “I’m sorry for what I said. I’ll do as you wish, please help me!”
“I’m happy to see you have truly changed. Moreover, you look much more beautiful now. Now, I understand that you have no money or identity to support yourself here and obviously you can’t leave the country right now, so here’s what I can offer you. My son is struggling to find a woman, marry him, be a good Muslim wife and you we will provide for you. You will have a honest, decent life and won’t need to work.”
The perspective of being stuck in that body and becoming a housewife for life terrified her but she didn’t see any other way out. She learned to adapt to her new life and became a devout Muslim. She would always ask the Almighty to be able to accept her new life.

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