fidger

Updated: May 18, 2025

See and hear the time of prayers announced from El-Kaaba . Pray at Fidger, Subah and Aser, Mugreb and Lailah . Observe well the burying-place where the body of the Prophet is laid, and be assured that if you are buried there, you will rise up at the Resurrection to Paradise. This is the good work I counsel you to do, but you won't do it."

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

Rose at Fidger, a little before day-break, or at the point of day, in fright of another ghiblee. Necessity has, indeed, in such a case, no law, and no compassion on the unfortunate. But, to-day, God sent the poor slaves a little fresh north wind, for "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." The north wind increased towards the evening, we journeying on very well.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846