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"Amin, I pray the blessed Saviour this night! Do you think, Darby, he was a traitor, and done it a purpose?" "Oh, mavrone, oh! if I die widout the priest, what 'ud become o' me, an' all the sins I have to answer?" "I say, was the villain a traitor, do you think?"
He became so well known in Mecca for being truthful and trustworthy that people gave him the name of El Amin, which means "the truthful." At this time he was only sixteen years of age; but the rich traders had so much confidence in him that they gave him important business to attend to, and trusted him with large sums of money.
This is an evidence that the Bahá’ís are spreading the blessings of unity and progressive development throughout the world under the direction of divine guidance and purpose, while other movements which are only temporary in their activities and accomplishments have no real, universal significance. 23 April 1912 Talk at Howard University Washington, D.C. Translated by Amin Banani
"No matther for that; we don't want to bring 'the good people' this day's Thursday, the Lord stand between us an' harm amin! about our ears. Out wid them." "No, the sorra branch." "Out wid them, I say, Are you afeard of neither God nor the divil?" "Not overburdened with much fear of either o' them," replied the daring young creature. "Aren't you afeard o' the good people, then?"
Amin, says the prophet; fate is fate, what's before is not behind, neither is what's behind before, and every thing will come to pass that's to happen. Amin, agin, says the prophet, an' what am I to write? Grandeur an' wealth up stairs and down stairs silks-an' satins an inside car bracelets, earrings, and Spanish boots, made of Morroccy leather, tanned at Cordovan.
The amin shows them with sad satire, saying in explanation, "French Roumi:" it was the Christian French. That is the term, meaning no compliment, which the Kabyle fits to all Europeans alike. In vain the Frenchman, writhing with intellectual repugnance, explains that he is not a Christian that he is a Voltairean, a creature of reason, an illuminé.
He put it once more to his lips, from which it was not separated without relinquishing a considerable portion of its contents. "Dhea Grashthias!" he exclaimed; "throth, I find myself, the betther o' that sup, in regard that it's good for this touch 'o' configuration that I'm throubled wid inwardly! Doxis Doxis Glorioxis? Amin!"
Before him they beheld a man, as he were the Wazir Ja'afar, and at his head stood an eunuch, as he were Masrur, with a drawn sword in his hand; besides a score of cup-companions. Now when the Caliph saw this, he turned and said, "O Ja'afar," and the Minister replied, "At thy service, O Prince of True Believers." Then quoth the Caliph, "Belike this is one of my sons, Al Amin or Al-Maamun."
After this the fairy said to the caliph, "Commander of the Faithful, I must now discover to you the unknown husband you inquire after. He is Prince Amin, your eldest son, who by stratagem brought this lady to his house, where he married her.
Sullivan, repeating that sacred form of salutation with which the peasantry address each other. "'Tis a fine evenin', honest woman, glory be to him that sent the same, and amin! If it was cowld, I'd be axin' you to draw your chair in to the fire: but, any way, won't you sit down?"
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