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Updated: June 22, 2025
We had purposely avoided passing too near this town, and afterwards learnt that it was owing to the influence of this very holy seyyid that our reception was so bad amongst the Nahad tribe. All about Hagarein are many traces of the olden days when the frankincense trade flourished, and when the town of Doan, which name is still retained in the Wadi Doan, was a great emporium for this trade.
Oh, this mystery is too exquisitely delicious! Who knows, perhaps you might make a convert of me? The first of our secrets is that we are all things to all men, until we are quite sure of the sympathy of the listener; then we venture a step further. Mrs Allmash. How wise that is! and how unlike the system adopted by Christians! You may be sure of my most entire sympathy. Ali Seyyid.
We were warned 'that our eyes should never be let to see Meshed again; we might camp before we got there, or after, as we wished, so were led by a roundabout way to Adab, and saw no more of the leprous seyyid who told such wondrous tales about the English king who once lived in Hagarein, and how the English, Turks, and Arabs were all descended from King Sam.
Now, as far as I understand, you have already got rid of the religion, or you would not be looking for a new one; all you have to do is to get rid of the morality, and there you are. Oh, Mr Allyside, what a dreadful man you are! Who started such an extraordinary doctrine? Ali Seyyid. Well, his name was Hassan-bin-Saba commonly known among Westerns as the "Old Man of the Mountain."
My friend's name is Ali Seyyid, Lady Fritterly. Lady Fritterly. Pray excuse my stupidity, Mr Allyside, and come and sit near me. Lord Fondleton, find Mrs Gloring a chair. Mrs Gloring. I am sure I don't know. I think Lady Fritterly called him a codger. Lord Fondleton. Ah, he looks like it, and a rum one at that, as our American cousins say. Mrs Gloring. Hush! Mr Germsell is going to begin.
He was fond of saying, 'I see him as the rising sun. He was also wont to declare that the 'Proof' would be a youth of the race of Hashim, i.e. a kinsman of Muḥammad, untaught in the learning of men. I leave it an open question whether Seyyid Kaẓim had actually fixed on the person who was to be his successor, and to reflect the Supreme Wisdom far more brilliantly than himself.
We began bargaining for it at once, my husband offering ten rupees for the stone and ten for the golden setting, but the seyyid who brought it said it was the property of a man in Siwoun, who wished to keep it for his children, and he must take it back to him.
His followers, owing to the value they attached to murder as a remedial agent, have been known by the name of the "Assassins." Mrs Allmash. Oh, good gracious! Lady Fritterly. My dear Louisa, what is the matter? You look quite frightened. Ali Seyyid. Mrs Allmash is a little alarmed because I proposed a new morality for the future, as well as a new religion. Mr Coldwaite.
We set off early next morning for Hagarein. We passed after one hour Kaidoun, with its own private little valley to the west, a tributary of the main one, which in this part is called Wadi Kasr. There is the grave of a celebrated saint, and a very pious seyyid, called Al Habid Taha Ali al Hadad, abides near it.
From an inside pocket he drew a tightly folded newspaper with much-worn edges, and indicated a paragraph. "Read that," said the saddler to royalty. The paragraph ran thus: His Highness Seyyid Feysal bin Turkee, Imam of Muskat, is one of the most progressive and enlightened rulers of the Old World. His stables contain more than a thousand horses of the purest Persian breeds.
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