1.   It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert.

2.   He brought a prayer carpet to his job and carefully adhered to Islamic dietary restrictions, shunning alcohol and checking the ingredients of everything, even medicine.

3.   He sat on a chair covered by a prayer carpet and read verses from the Quran, the Muslim holy book.

4.   Prayer carpets have mihrab, a prayer arch, on one end only.