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They have the air and appearance of devotees, men set aside, roaming preachers of a jehad whose meaning they have forgotten. They seem to be invariably of the short, dark type. The larger, fair- haired, long-headed men are common in business, but not in 'drumming. The drummer's eyes have a hard, rapt expression.
I have heard them calling a jehad in the Sudan. Tumpi-tum-tump! tumpitum-tump! Makes a white man's hair stand up when he hears it in the night. I don't know what it is, but the sound drives the Oriental mad. And that reminds me I've had them in mind all day the drums of jeopardy!" "What an odd phrase! And what are the drums of jeopardy?" asked Kitty, leaning on her arms.
They knew his face, his tongue, and the weight and style of his arm; and though they would cheerfully have seen him the sacrifice of the Jehad to the cry of Alldhu Akbar! they respected him for himself, and they feared him because he was near to the person of Ismail.
"England will ask the price of the young man's life of you, Excellency." "England dare not move is thy servant a fool? Every Mussulman in the land would raise the green flag the Jehad would be upon ye!" "He is so young. He meant no ill. The face of your daughter drew him on. He did not realise his crimen or its penalty." "It is a fool's reasoning.
Shall we give place to them on our own mastaba, in our own court-yard hand to them the keys of our harems? I would have raised the Jehad if they vexed me with their envoys and their armies." He paused, panting. "It would not have availed," was David's quiet answer. "This land may not be as Tibet a prison for its own people. If the door opens outward, then must it open inward also.
The impulse affected Western Christendom for a relatively short period of time, only once or twice producing movements at all commensurable with those which had emanated from Arabia, Asia Minor, and Africa, and leading to no conquests that can rank in magnitude with the caliphates of Bagdad, Cordova, and Cairo. But the Christian Crusade is in one sense more remarkable than the Mohammedan Jehad.
The massacre of the British mission had no sooner been perpetrated than Yakoub Khan found himself in a very bad way. The Cabul Sirdars sided with the disaffected soldiery, and urged the Ameer to raise his banner for a jehad or religious war, a measure for which he had no nerve.
And when, afterwards, he came to know the truth, and of her innocence, from the chief eunuch who with his last breath cleared her name, a terrible anger and despair had come upon him. Time and intrigue and conspiracy had distracted his mind, and the Jehad became the fixed aim and end of his life. Now this was gone. Destiny had tripped him up. Kaid and the infidel Inglesi had won.
As to the city of Eshtellenbosch, I am not a Sahib only a Sikh. I would have quartered one troop only of the Gurgaon Rissala in that city one little troop and I would have schooled that city till its men learned to kiss the shadow of a Government horse upon the ground. They preached the Jehad against us. This is true all the camp knew it. And most of the houses were thatched!
Though he was known to be a physical coward, his sanctity and the fact that he was their own particular holy man, not less than his eloquence, powerfully moved this savage tribe. A Jehad was proclaimed. How long should Islam be insulted? How long should its followers lurk in the barren lands of the North? He urged them to rise and join in the destruction of the white invaders.
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