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Updated: May 20, 2025
While pouring out the water into the wooden bowls, with which every beggar is provided, they exclaim "Sebyl Allah, ya atshan, Sebyl!" "hasten, O thirsty, to the ways of God!" and then break out in the following short song of three notes only, which I never heard without emotion. Ed-djene wa el moy fezata ly Saheb es-sabyl "Paradise and forgiveness be the lot of him who gave you this water!"
I have overheard many similar conversations among the Indians at Djidda and Mekka, and also among the Arabian sailors who We left our resting-place at ten o'clock P.M., and proceeded over the plain of Kara, in a direction N. 40 W. At the end of three hours we passed a ruined building called Sebyl el Kara, where a well, now filled up, formerly supplied the passengers with water.
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