1 oadiitf Mdtad, w nqipofed to- be faoimdi irtMth^
2 Hum m man will tctt Mif^er, " It is an oath by th< K< raun, if ever
3 « joa iteveal what I have told jwi." *< It k an oath by Jeiua ChxiBt,
4 <* the aoul of Godf that jan giant my request.**^
5 I do not know that people ofteo do thinga disagreeable to them
6 ndien thin OOigilied ; but it is a common apolop^^^ for consenting; to
7 any improper request, to say I abould never h»ve dtme it,if he had
8 ** not iniposofl an oath on me."
9 The Alghauns never enter on any undertaking without saving the
10 Fauteheh ; a custom, 1 believe, peculiar to themselves. The Faii-
11 teheh is the opening verse of the Koraun, and is often used as a
12 prayer bv all the Mussulmans. *
13 One person may say it aloud, and all the rest say. Amen. They
14 hold up their liands before ihem, with the pahns upward^ during the
15 pmyer^ and stroke their &oe and beaida i^ien it la condnded. Thia
16 eeMOKmy is g<Hie through on all impoitaBt occiaaione» on beginning a
17 *joiiniejjr» onioondiiding an agreeoisit, on maniagetf and m ahott on •
18 the^oomnieiioeaient of moat acta in li&
19 No people .can be more regular' in poforming thehr devotmM*-
20 Their ptayeri bcgpnfaefine day, and are rapeated-five times ; the last
21 of v^dilaUa a little after the doseof the evening twilight ' -The hoor
22 of pfmyer is always announced by the Mweeiina (from the tops of llie
23 minaielSb or from some other high place)* fay the shoot of Allaho
24 Akbar, God is •moat great," which is repeated till it may be sup-
25 posed to have reached the of all the faithiul. It is a solemn and
26 pleasing sound. When it is heard, the people repair to the moaqneSy
27 but those who are otherwise occupied, do not suffer that interruption.
28 A man who hears the call in company, remarks it, and withdraws to
29 pray i but whea I was in omipaBy, some persona always continued to
30 * Mm be to Ood, the of aU cKBtura, the Mom Mttdfid, dw
31 day of jll4gmM>li That do wc worship, of tliee do we beg iiinitimcii. direct as in dM
32 right way, in the way oF those to whom thou host hocii gDicion'^ : T)ot of those* aipjnil *
33 whom thou art inceoaed, nor of Uioee who go astray. (Sales Koruuii, page i.)
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