雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第11章:聰明的班級(13)
It’s my duty to do so.
這是我的責任。
God wants to see how we behave in such situations.
在困境裏，真主想見識我們會如何應對。
There is a saying in the Quran, ‘The falsehood has to go and the truth will prevail.’
《古蘭經》裏面有一句話：謊言將離開，真理會獲得勝利。
If one man, Fazlullah, can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it? I wondered.
如果單憑法茲魯拉一個人就可以摧毀一切，那麼爲什麼一個女孩就不能改變現狀呢？我問自己。
I prayed to God every night to give me strength.
每天晚上，我都會祈求真主賜給我力量。
The media in Swat were under pressure to give positive coverage to the Taliban – some even respectfully called the Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan ‘School dada’, when in reality he was destroying schools.
迫於壓力，斯瓦特的媒體大多賦予塔利班正面的形象，有些甚至語帶尊敬地稱塔利班的發言人穆斯林•汗爲學校之父，而事實上，正是他在大肆毀壞學校。
But many local journalists were unhappy about what was happening to their valley and they gave us a powerful platform as we would say things they didn’t dare to.
但是，也有許多當地的記者對於發生在故鄉的事情感到氣憤，於是，他們爲我們提供了有力的舞臺，因爲我們敢言人所不敢言。
We didn’t have a car so we went by rickshaw, or one of my father’s friends would take us to the interviews.
我們家沒有車，因此，我們通常搭乘人力車去接受採訪。有時，父親的朋友們會載我們一程。
One day my father and I went to Peshawar to appear on a BBC Urdu talk show hosted by a famous columnist called Wasatullah Khan.
一天，我跟着父親去白沙瓦上BBC的烏爾都語談話節目，節目的主持人是知名的專欄作家瓦沙圖拉•汗。
We went with my father’s friend Fazal Maula and his daughter.
我們與父親的朋友法扎爾•毛拉和他的女兒一起受訪。
Two fathers and two daughters.
兩位父親，兩個女兒。
To represent the Taliban they had Muslim Khan, who wasn’t in the studio.
代表塔利班說話的則是穆斯林•汗，他並沒有出現在攝影棚中。
I was a bit nervous but I knew it was important as many people all over Pakistan would be listening.
我有點緊張，但我知道這次訪談非常重要，因爲有許多巴基斯坦各地的民衆會聽到我們說的話。
