When I met Al-Alousi!

The other day I was surfing the Internet when I found a website for the freaky Iraqi Clairvoyant Thabit Al-Alousi, many are familiar with this man from some satellite TV channels where he usually reads the stars and makes many predictions for the coming years and so. he used to publish a magazine here in London, I am not sure if he still does or if its only published online now! this guy became quite famous in the late 80s here in London where he lives and I used to see him in Edgware Road sitting outside cafes, he is easy to recognise because he is a hunchback.

Seeing his website brought back a memory from some years ago when I actually met him, a friend of mine called me and asked me if I was free to go with him and meet Al-Alousi, of course I said yes straightaway, my friend told me that he had a request from someone he knows that lives abroad to go and deliver some documents to Al-Alousi.

My friend picked me up and we drove to Bayswater where Al-Alousi lived, when we arrived the door was opened by a woman who lead us through this very long corridor to the main sitting room, the apartment where Al-Alousi lived and worked looked very big.

As soon as we entered the sitting room, I nearly freaked out, it was a very big room with lots of sofas and chairs, there were some people sitting, mainly women, I assumed they were there with appointments to see Al-Alousi just like us, the place was very quiet and the atmosphere very scary, the room was dimly lit and in the middle instead of a coffee table, there was what looked like a coffin, honest, a coffin covered with a colourful rug, a bit like a coffin you would see in an Arab country, on top of the coffin many candles were burning adding to the atmosphere of horror.

We sat there in silence staring at each other and at the others, not sure why we were still there instead of running out the door.

After a while the lady that opened the door told us that Al-Alousi was ready to meet us and she lead us to the kitchen which looked normal with a table on one side but it was a bit dark in there too, we sat at the table waiting for Al-Alousi to make an entrance, after few minutes he came in, I am a short man but he was a lot shorter than me, he was wearing jalabia, his face was so scary, I looked into his eyes and thought my God what am I doing here, this man looks really freaky.

He shook hands with us, sat down, then did the talking to my friend, he was so serious yet he was talking about predictions for the person that sent us there, by then I really wanted to laugh, all the scary thoughts I had and the scary image he surrounded himself with had disappeared, in front me was this man talking a lot of POO, even saying things like people can fax him a copy of a picture of their hands and he can tell their future from that!

After about 20 minutes or so he finished his nonsense and we left, as I passed the sitting room, I noticed that coffin again and I could see the women sitting there were staring at it, we were so glad to be out of this eerie place and we couldn't stop laughing about what this man told us.

كذب المنجمون ولو صدقوا .. الله الوحيد اللي يعلم ما في السماوات وما في الارض وسبحانه وتعالى هو العالم بكل شي