Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 1) (London, 1832)

28 MEER IIADJEE SIIAAIJ.

Hadje (pilgrimage), three several times, at dif-
ferent periods of his eventful life,—returning
after each pilgrimage to his home in Lucknow,
—and being a person of strict veracity, with a
remarkably intelligent mind and retentive me-
mory, I have profited largely by his information,
and derived from it both amusement and in-
struction, through many years of social inter-
course. When he had numbered more than
eighty years he dwelt with hope on again per-
forming the Hadje, where it was his intention
to rest his earthly substance until the great day
of restitution, and often expressed his wishes
to have me and mine to share with him the pil-
grimage he desired to make. But this was not
allowed to his prayer; his summons arrived
rather unexpectedly to those who loved and
revered him for virtues rarely equalled ; happily
for him, his pure soul was prepared to meet his
Creator, in whose service he had passed this
life, with all humility, and in whose mercy
alone his hopes for the future were centred.