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 2) (London, 1832)

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are manufactured requires not my aid in ex-
posing."

This Durweish is said,—and believed by the
good Mussulmaun people I have conversed
with, — to have foreseen the hour when he
should be summoned from this life into eternity ;
and three weeks prior to the appointed time, he
endeavoured to fortify the minds of his wife and
family, to bear with resignation that separation
he had been warned should take place. He
assembled his affectionate relatives on the occa-
sion, and thus addressed them, " My dear
family, it is the will of God that we should
part; on such a day (mentioning the time), my
soul will take flight from its earthly mansion.
Be ye all comforted, and hereafter, if ye obey
God's holy law, ye shall meet me again in a
blessed eternity."

As may be supposed, the females wept bit-
terly ; they were distressed, because the good
Durweish had ever been kind, indulgent, affec-
tionate, and tender in all the relative situations
he held amongst them. He tried many soothing
arguments to comfort and console them for some

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