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Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah
Alana Valentine
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Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah
Alana Valentine
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What do you do when you profoundly disagree with someone you love? Wearing a hijab is a touchstone of religious identity, but it is also imbued with a complex array of historical and contemporary meanings. The cultural meaning of the hijab has become a wedge between generations.%##CHAR13##%%##CHAR13##%At the heart of Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah is the relationship between an aunt and her niece. Both devout Muslims, the younger woman wants to put on a headscarf, the older woman tries to dissuade her. For Aunt Sarrinah, the hijab represents a world from which she has escaped; for her niece, Shafana, it is a personal statement of renewed faith.
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SHAFANA
SARRINAH, her aunt
SHAFANA is in a laboratory, surrounded by jars of creatures in preserving solution. She is rehearsing a speech, half to her aunt, half to the audience.
SHAFANA: You get to a point, okay, why donât I be honest, you get to an age and youâve absorbed so much and youâve observed so much, that you think that you know, basically, what the world has to offer. Youâve seen it all. Or at least variations of it all. And itâs not that youâre tired or arrogant or lazy, although theyâre not the worst things you can be. Itâs a survival thing. If youâre smart and if youâve been through a lot, and who hasnât, you can at least congratulate yourself on your ability to vaguely see what might be coming next. To be able to predict situations and not be disorientated. Oh, you donât mind being pleasantly surprised. But you donât like to be caught entirely off guard. Itâs what separates successful people from other people, isnât it? Foresight. And you work at it too, at âkeeping upâ and âkeeping in touchâ because if you do, youâre not going to be fooled. Youâve sussed out most probabilities so youâre ahead of the game. Which is canny.
But there always comes a point where you lose it. Where a whole generation lose touch. They start to listen to what looks like the next thing. It sounds like the next thing and it acts like that next thing but itâs not the next thing. The truly astonishing thing about whatâs coming next is that itâs nothing like what this generation were like, old or young. Itâs utterly unfamiliar.
If youâre a scientist you have to guard against false assumptions. Youâve all heard the clichĂ© about having to recognise the veil of knowing and surrender to unknowing. But knowing or thinking you know the answers is only one veil. There are others, like physical barriers to seeing. We still donât know half of what is in the deep, deep oceans because theyâre veiled with darkness. But the creatures are there. Growing, changing, like nothing weâve ever seen before. To be discovered. Like the future. Which is not just veiled by time but also by the eyes weâre looking at it with. Yes?
What if I told you that in the future you might make a choice that today, right now, you would utterly deny. What if I told you that a change is coming, for you, that is so unbelievable that it would make you laugh out loud if I mentioned it.
SARRINAH enters.
But believe me, believe me, there are yet new worlds to be fathomed and new impossibilities to be revealed.
SARRINAH: Shafana.
SHAFANA: In the vast undersea there are vents which scientists call black smokers.
SARRINAH: Are you ready?
SHAFANA: Two thousand five hundred metres down, clouds of pluming black particles are belched into the sea, coughed out like clouds of choking fumes, and four hundred degrees Celsius hot.
SARRINAH: And Iâm interested in this why?
SHAFANA: This is molten quartz, studded with iron, copper, zinc, nickel and hydrogen sulphide.
SARRINAH: If you said it was liqui...