Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Volume 2Tylston and Edwards, 1893 |
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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 Desert door East Eastern Egypt Egyptian entered Fatimah feet Fiumara four gate ground Hagges Hajj Hanafi hand Harim head Hijazi hills honour 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 Mount Arafat mountain Mu'ezzin Muna Muzdalifah Nakhla night Omar Pasha pass performed Persian piastres pilgrimage pilgrims pillars plain pray prayer Prophet road Safa and Marwah Sayyid Shafe'i Sharif Shaykh Shugduf side stand Sultan Tawaf temple tent Thee Thou tomb traveller tribe Turkish Turks Umrah Wady Wahhabis wall whilst women word Zemzem Zu'l Hijjah
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Page 67 - ... 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 28 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Page 375 - 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 205 - In the name of Allah, and Allah is Almighty ! (I do this) in hatred of the Fiend and to his shame.
Page 197 - 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 211 - 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.' 'My tongue is mine ain,' true Thomas said; 'A gudely gift ye wad gie to me!
Page 205 - 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 161 - there at last it lay, the bourne of my long and weary pilgrimage, realizing the plans and hopes of many and many a year. The mirage medium of fancy invested the huge catafalque and its gloomy pall with peculiar charms. There were no giant fragments of hoar antiquity as in Egypt, no remains of graceful and harmonious beauty as in Greece and Italy, no...
Page 302 - ... 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 accurately the quality of this stone, which has been worn to its present surface by the millions of touches and kisses it has received. It appeared to me like a lava containing several small extraneous particles of a whitish and of a yellowish substance.
Page 101 - Hence it is that a stranger speaking Arabic becomes poetical as naturally as he would be witty in French and philosophic in German. Truly spake Mohammed alDamiri, " Wisdom hath alighted upon three things — the brain of the Franks, the hands of the Chinese, and the tongues of the Arabs.