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)

314 MUSSULMAUN DEVOTEES.

LETTER XXV.

Mussulmaun Devotees. — The Chillubdhaars. ■—Peculiar
mode of worship.—Propitiatory offerings. — Supposed
to be invulnerable to fire.—The Maadhaars or Duffelees.
—Character of the founder.—Pilgrimage to his tomb.—
Females afflicted on visiting it.—Effects attributed to
the violation of the sanctuary by a foreigner.—Super-
stition of the Natives.—Anecdote of Shiekh Suddoo and
the Genii.—The way of the world exemplified, a Khaunie
(Hindoostaunie fable).—Moral fable.—The King who
longed for fruit.

There are many classes of men amongst
the Mussulmauns, who either abjure the world
or seem to do so, independent of those deno-
minated Durweish ;—such as the religious men-
dicants, &c, who have no earthly calling, and
derive their subsistence from the free-will
offerings of their neighbours, or the bounty of
the rich, who from respect for their humble