Residing in a hostel in a predominantly non-Muslim country, he was careful not to play the recitation so loudly that his neighbours may take offence to it. A young woman also lived in the hostel, a fair distance from his room. One night, as he was listening to the Qur’an, he heard a knock at the door. When he opened it, the young woman stood in front of him and asked him to switch off his “music” as she could not engage in her worship. (She assumed the Qur’an to be music). The young man stepped out of his room to check if he could hear the recitation from outside, but he could not. “Your room is in another corridor and quite a distance from here. I cannot even hear it outside the door of my room,” he explained to her. But she was adamant and insisted that he switch off the recitation.

A few days later, the young man gathered all the Muslim residents of the hostel in his room in order to listen to a beautiful recitation of the Qur’an. He closed the door so that the sound could not be heard outside. While listening, they hear a knock at the door. When he opened it, the young woman was standing there complaining. “You are disrupting my worship with your music,” she shouted angrily. They explained to her that this was not music, but the words of Allah. But she was not prepared to listen. After failing to make her understand, one of the Muslims finally asked her, “Who do you worship?” She replied, “Satan!” Shocked by her reply, they asked her to show them her method of worship. Happily, she led them to her room. As they entered, they saw a human skeleton and other bones scattered around the room. The woman would cast spells using these bones. Now the truth became apparent to them. The power of Qur’an had prevented her satanic worship. They left and the young man continued listening to the Qur’an in his spare time. Finally, the young woman could not take it any longer and checked out of the hostel.