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Updated: May 22, 2025
The "bed of lesser value" was stored away in the garret that lay beyond, and the prayer-mat was placed alongside the toil-worn wooden charpoy, that was at least fairly clean and had all four legs intact; and under this bed, the box that held a strange assortment of clothing was put safely away.
To leave one's lord when calamity came upon him was to shame one's beard. It was the act of the infidel, not the behavior of the faithful, and Daoud had threatened to shave his beard, put on the dress of a pilgrim, and beg his way from Hyndsville to Mecca. He was even now kneeling upon a prayer-mat reciting a four-bow prayer.
"Do you know that our Holy Father is treating with Sultan Bajazet regarding help against Venice." "Yes, but that is diabolical! We must at any rate act as though we were Christians." "Act yes; for I am not a Christian, nor are you." "If one must have a religion, give me Islam! God is One! That is the whole of its theology; a prayer-mat is its whole liturgy."
"I seek for a little prayer-mat and a few bowls of brass for my food; likewise, a bed for myself, and a bed of lesser value for my companion. Hast thou these things, Leh Shin?" Leh Shin went into his back premises and returned with the bowls and the prayer-mat. "The bed for thyself, O Haj, and the bed of lesser value for thy friend, I shall make shift to procure.
The rest of us set about cooking breakfast after the morning prayers were over. My prayer-mat was next Narayan Singh's, and it was interesting to hear him curse the Prophet sotto voce while pretending to vie with those robbers in fervid protestations of faith in Islam. But more than the Prophet he cursed Ayisha, praying to his Hindu pantheon to wreak all wrath on her.
When we come to Persia or Turkestan we shall often see a caravan leader leave his camels in the middle of the march, spread out his prayer-mat on the ground, and recite his prayers. They do not do it thoughtlessly or slovenly: you might yell in the ear of a Mohammedan at prayer and he would take no notice. "There is no god but God!"
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