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Updated: May 2, 2025
Just at sunset he led us out to a great open space, with a tall palm in the centre of it and the gathering of a multitude of people. A mollah was clambering into a high scaffold built of poles, whence shortly he began to intone a long-drawn-out "Allah! Allah! il Allah!" The cocoanut palms cut the sunset, and the boabab trees the fat, lazy boababs looked more monstrous than ever.
We paid a visit to the governor of Hami, who received us on the roof of his house, where many were assembled, and scarcely had he greeted us when they all fell to praying, the mollah standing in front to lead, and all the others standing in a row behind.
He wished to unite Hindus and Moslims and described himself simply as Guru or teacher and his adherents as Sikhs or disciples. He spent the greater part of his life wandering about India and is said to have reached Mecca. A beautiful story relates that he fell asleep with his feet turned towards the Kaaba. A mollah kicked him and asked how he dared to turn his feet and not his head towards God.
We returned to the great mosque, which we had visited on the evening of our arrival, and listened for some time to the voice of a mollah who was preaching an afternoon sermon to a small and hungry congregation. We then entered the court before the tomb of Hazret Mevlana.
Shelter, and the usual rude accommodation, supplemented on this occasion by a wandering luti and his vicious-looking baboon, as also a company of riotous charvadars, who insist on singing accompaniments to the luti's soul-harrowing tom-toming till after midnight, are obtained at the caravansarai of Deh Mollah.
An old mollah taught me to read and write and repeat the verses of the Koran and I was as much advanced as any boy under his charge but he disliked me very much for reasons which I never could understand, and was eternally giving me the slipper.
I asked a stately priest, in a red turban, to explain the affair to me, and in a few minutes found myself supplied by one Mollah with a chair, and by another with a cup of tea was, in short, in the midst of a Malay soiree. They spoke English very little, but made up for it by their usual good breeding and intelligence.
The aged priest then proposed to show them the relics of the mosque; and a fee was paid to him, and to the man who unlocked a door for their admission. The mollah produced a small golden box, from which he took a silver case.
"If your slave is not mistaken, a good trade every where. The infidel means that he was a mollah or dervish among the followers of Isauri." Jesus Christ. "May they and their fathers' graves be eternally defiled," cried the pacha. "Do not they drink wine and eat pork? Have you nothing more to say?" inquired the pacha.
Icy winter is followed by merry springtime grief is often succeeded by joy." "Interpret, O riddler!" said I; "Gahagan Khan is no reader of puzzles no prating mollah. Gujputi loves not words, but swords." "Listen then, O Gujputi: you are in Holkar's power." "I know it." "You will die by the most horrible tortures to-morrow morning." "I dare say."
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