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)

OF THE MUSSULMAUNS. 133

" Know ye for a truth, O man (repeating his
name), that the God we worship is One only,
Great and Glorious, Most High and Mighty
God, who is above all lords, the only true God.
" Know ye also, That Mahumud is the best
of the Lord's messengers.

" That Ali and his successors, (before enu-
merated, but always here repeated), were the
best of all leaders.

" That whatever came with Mahumud is true,
(meaning the whole work of his mission);—
Death is true; the Interrogation by Moonkih
and Nykee (the two angels) is true; the Resur-
rection is true ; Destruction is true; the Bridge
of Sirraat is true ; the Scales are true; Looking
into the Book is true; Heaven and Earth are
true; Hell is true;- the Day of Judgment is
true.

"Of these things there is no doubt—all are
true; and, further, that God, the great and
glorious God, will raise all the dead bodies
from their graves."

Then the Maulvee reads the following prayer
or benediction, which is called Dooar prayer :—