Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Volume 2G. Bell, 1906 |
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Abdullah Al-Bakia al-Din Al-Hijaz Al-Islam Al-Madinah Allah amongst appeared Arab Arabia Arafat Badawin Bayt Benu Black Stone boy Mohammed Burckhardt Cairo Caliph called camels Caravan ceremonies circumambulation crowd cubits descended Desert door East Eastern Egypt Egyptian entered feet Fiumara four gate ground Hagges Hajj Hanafi hand Harim head Hijazi hills Holy honour Hosayn hour Ibn Jubayr Ibrahim Ihram Indian Jabal Jeddah journey Ka'abah Kadiri Kiswah Koran Labbayk latter Madinah Mahumet Makam Mas'ud Masjid Meccah Mecha miles Moslem Mosque Mount Arafat mountain mounted Mu'ezzin Muna Muzdalifah Nakhla night Omar Osman Pasha pass performed Persian piastres pilgrimage pilgrims pillars plain pray prayer Prophet road Safa and Marwah Sayyid Shafe'i Sharif Shaykh Shugduf side Sultan Tawaf temple tent Thee thou tomb traveller tribe Turkish Turks Umrah Wâdy Wahhabis wall women Zemzem Zu'l Hijjah
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Page 61 - ... is good sense defaced: Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools. In search of wit these lose their common sense, And then turn critics...
Page 22 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Page 369 - It was a sight, indeed,' says Pitts, ' able to pierce one's heart, to behold so many thousands in their garments of humility and mortification/ with their naked heads, and cheeks watered with tears, and to hear their grievous sighs and sobs, begging earnestly for the remission of their sins.
Page 199 - In the name of Allah, and Allah is Almighty ! (I do this) in hatred of the fiend and to his shame.
Page 205 - For a' the blude that's shed on earth Rins through the springs o' that countrie. Syne they came on to a garden green, And she pu'd an apple frae a tree — ' " Take this for thy wages, true Thomas ; It will give thee the tongue that can never lie.
Page 191 - So every spirit, as it is more pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 199 - I purpose loosening my Ihram according to the practice of the Prophet, whom may Allah bless and preserve ! O Allah, make unto me in every hair, a light, a purity, and a generous reward! In the name of Allah, and Allah is Almighty!
Page 86 - ... love will fly her home. The fugitives must brave every danger, for revenge, at all times the Bedouin's idol, now becomes the lode-star of his existence. But the Arab lover will dare all consequences. " Men have died and the worms have eaten them, but not for love," may be true in the West ; it is false in the East.
Page 296 - Stone ;' it forms a part of the sharp angle of the building at four or five feet above the ground. It is an irregular oval of about seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly smoothed. It looks as if the whole had been broken into many pieces by a violent blow, and then united again. It is very difficult to determine...
Page 137 - ... which filled the other half of the channel. The left side was a precipice, grim and barren, but not so abrupt as its brother. Opposite us the way seemed barred by piles of hills, crest rising above crest into the far blue distance. Day still smiled upon the upper peaks, but the lower slopes and the fiumara bed were already curtained with grey sombre shade. A damp seemed to fall upon our spirits as we approached this Valley Perilous. I remarked...