Answered Prayers

I found this bowl placed under the Shiite Flag in one of the Old Havelis (mansion). The engraved relic copper bowl had collected ash over the decades. People place these sticks on every Thursday night with their prayers. Whats left of the very recent ones can be seen in a bunch and can be identified that they were placed by different individuals as the each bunch is different in colors. Now part of the rest of the ash they makes you think of the Prayers which may have been answered by now.