The Eye of Istar
Author: William Le Queux
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-01-23
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780483709706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of the No Return Wild-haired men sped fleetly to and fro, brandishing their gleaming arms and apostrophizing Eblis women left their millet unbeaten and followed, while musicians chanted war songs softly in a sad falsetto, accompany ing themselves, upon their little ginbris - those queer, two stringed guitars, fashioned from a tortoise shell, which give forth a dismal sound like the chirping of a grasshopper of the oasis. The servants of the Merci ful are those who walk meekly on the earth, and when the ignorant Speak to them, answer, Peace; and who pass the night adoring Allah, and standing up to pray unto him, and who say, O Allah, avert from us the torment Of hell, for the torment thereof is perpet ual verily, the same is a miserable abode and who, when they bestow, are neither profuse nor niggardly, but Observe a just medium between these, and who invoke not another god together with the One Allah, neither slay the soul which Allah hath forbidden to be slain, unless for a just cause. The Dervishes were going forth to battle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
