TIRANA - They gather one after the other every evening, and join together in the half-lit alley where Muli informed them that he had heard the majestic voice for the first time. The truth is, at first they didn't believe him and remembered that he had a stroke, as sometimes happens to people with an extraordinary intelligence quotient.
Muli was angry, but he understood that the road to witness miracles is long and difficult. " I didn't tell you that I hear voices," answered Aldo Bumje and Tritol Shehu, " but I hear the Voice." It is one and infallible. Lift your head up, when the message comes to me clear as crystal: Gather the disciples, my son, and bring them to hear my word! You didn't want to come."
And so it happened that evening after evening, the followers who wanted to hear the Voice increased and became fully twelve. They came from all trades and crafts; Bullukbashi was a qatip, Genci i Pollo a dragoman, Laki Luciano a prefect; others made a living as tobacconists, talibes and lawyers. Albana assured those present that the new religion also accepted women, and for this there was a special order from the Prophet's wife and daughter, namely Slobododanka and Gërgita.
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The first night when they all gathered together at Lajmi alley and raised their heads in the hope that they would not hear any chatter, was historic. The miracle had neither bushes that spewed out flames, nor quadriplegics that healed and became like an apple seed. Such small miracles, the Prophet Doctor had been doing for a long time. The fact that the handicapped Mul was dealing with big politics was enough for the followers to understand that with His Majesty, anything was possible.
No. The miracle was that when they looked up, it was not the flame of some bush but the light of the dump on the top floor of the palace. The prophet put his head out the baja's window and everyone realized that Muli was not lying. There was no need for the black man to climb Mount Sinai to receive the 10 commandments. From the top of the palace, Prophet Doctor gave 100 orders every evening, such as: "Give Caesar what is Caesar's, only when he issues permission for towers behind the Palace of Culture. For everything else, give me what you have for Caesar."
Or: "Don't steal." We will have time for this when we return to power" . Or the other, " Do not bear false witness in vain." Save the false evidence for the trial of Gërdec and the Partizani Complex".
So that the disciples would have no doubt that he was the Voice, the Prophet's church installed a modern phone system that he had taken from the Pharisees. The orders flowed like a river, clean and clear. But there were so many that followers were forced to keep notes. They even began to consult each other so as not to get confused.
"Did you get this, 'Don't go with your neighbor's wife?' or should I take it?", you say to Luciano Albana.
"Take the neighbor's wife yourself," Albana replied, " I have taken this other one: Don't honor false gods like Luli, but only the Prophet Doctor!"
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And really. Like all religions, the new religion had its own Judas. Luli had sold the Doctor for thirty coins. Even the day before he sold her, he had kissed her three times on the cheek. The religion also had St. Peter at the stake, who denied the Prophet three times before repenting. It was Gazi, who the more he grew his beard to feel comfortable in the assembly of men, the more his voice became thinner. But it's good that he had regretted it, and even promised that he would make a comeback. He made the promise in Italian:
"Faro curva", said Gazi to the disciples, but they misunderstood and told him back: " We know that you look like a booty, what should we do to the Doctor..."
Note: The patronage is a pre-prophetic satirical column