lah-u-kabar

Updated: June 30, 2025

Again another and another voice: "Allah Akbar!" and then the long roar of a vast multitude: "Al l lah-u-kabar!" Finally a slow melancholy wail, rising and falling on the darkening air: "There is no God but God, and Mohammed is the Prophet of God." It was a solemn sound nay, an awful one, with the man himself alive to hear it. O gratitude that is only a death-song! O fame that is only a funeral!

Sir Hall Caine - The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable