Author: Herbert Alfred Birks

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781230327266

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...be heard at times through noise of two women quarreling and vociferating. "Ah," said a man who sat by, "that's where there are two wives to one husband." He seemed to know all about it. Two little service-' with Jalalu'd-din.' 'I found no plan so successful for gathering a good and attentive audience as making straight for the mosque and inquiring for the moollah. Instead of hanging about the village and having one's object suspected, this was a definite and straightforward object; and besides often meeting in this way on equal terms with the moollah, the khans and other respectable villagers would congregate in the mosque--beside the young divinity students from Swat, Bajour, &c., who form a mendicant class like some German students, and come from across the frontier, drawn by the fame of the more learned moollahs, and seem a highly intelligent and studious body, always at their books, except when begging their bread, and at times listening with much curiosity, even with rapt attention, to the message. I could not but feel much drawn to these youths, for that some at least are serious truth-seekers I cannot doubt, and one could not but hope that God's Word might, through their lips, cross that strange mountain barrier and take root in lands wo are forbidden to visit. 'In Manakai, near to Attock, I made my way to the mosque as usual, and after some difficulty got to the presence of the chief moollah, an old and venerable man. I found it was not convenient to him to receive a visit as he had a whole conclave of moollahs (a sort of clerical congress). The few minutes I sat they kept dropping in one by one. The others rise as the brother moollah comes in. and he embraces them hastily one after the other in his arms, ...