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BREAKING THE FAST. 185
nounce a feast at hand ; and so it is, if to feed
the hungry be a feast to the liberal-hearted
bestower, which with these people I have found
to be a part and parcel of their nature. They are
instructed from their infancy to know all men
as brothers who are in any strait for food; and
they are taught by the same code, that for every
gift of charity they dispense with a free good
will, they shall have the blessing and favour of
their Creator abundantly in return. On the
present occasion, they cook choice viands to be
distributed to the poor, their fellow-labourers in
the harvest; and in proportion to the number
fed, so are their expectations of blessings from
the great Giver of all good, in whose service
it is performed. In my postscript you will find
several anecdotes of the daughter of Mahumud
on the subject of charity.
When any one is prevented fulfilling the fast
of Rumzaun in his own person he is instructed
to consider himself bound to provide food for
opening the fast of a certain number of poor
men who are Rozedhaars. The general food of
the peasantry and lower orders of the people__
nounce a feast at hand ; and so it is, if to feed
the hungry be a feast to the liberal-hearted
bestower, which with these people I have found
to be a part and parcel of their nature. They are
instructed from their infancy to know all men
as brothers who are in any strait for food; and
they are taught by the same code, that for every
gift of charity they dispense with a free good
will, they shall have the blessing and favour of
their Creator abundantly in return. On the
present occasion, they cook choice viands to be
distributed to the poor, their fellow-labourers in
the harvest; and in proportion to the number
fed, so are their expectations of blessings from
the great Giver of all good, in whose service
it is performed. In my postscript you will find
several anecdotes of the daughter of Mahumud
on the subject of charity.
When any one is prevented fulfilling the fast
of Rumzaun in his own person he is instructed
to consider himself bound to provide food for
opening the fast of a certain number of poor
men who are Rozedhaars. The general food of
the peasantry and lower orders of the people__