hamdullah

Updated: May 23, 2025

The Rais said, "Ah, these people, little know they what a garden is my country compared to this!" The Rais then stumbled over a small solitary herb and exclaimed instinctively, Hamdullah, "Praise to God," picking it up. What attracted our attention was the almost infinite number of small serpentine camel-tracks, wriggling endlessly through the wastes of The Sahara.

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

Meanwhile a jug of water is handed round, provided always there is any difficulty in getting down the balls; but mostly the water is handed round after the eating. It is drunk with a bismallah, and then a hamdullah, or "praise to God," the grace after meat, winds up and finishes the repast. The business of the caravan and its affairs of encampment are always terminated before supper.

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