Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: description of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions. Made during a twelve years' residence in their immediate society (Google eBook)

B. Mir Hasan 'Ali (Mrs)

Parbury, Allen, and co., 1832 - India

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Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 34
• Section 3: 36
• Section 4: 64
• Section 5: 74
• Section 6: 93
• Section 7: 125
• Section 8: 153
• Section 9: 182
• Section 10: 220
• Section 11: 240
• Section 12: 268
• Section 13: 314
• Section 14: 336
• Section 15: 348
• Section 16: 357
• Section 17: 374
• Section 18: 418

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Page 328 - replied the pious man, with a tone of authority that deprived them of strength : " a moment's delay, and I will pray that you be consumed by fire ! Know ye not that this is a mosque, holy, and erected wherein to do service to the great and only God ? Would Sheikh Suddoo add to his enormities by forcing the house of God...‎

Page 159 - ... upon his brow, his conversation gentle and refined, and his condescending manners hardly to be surpassed by the most refined gentleman of Europe. I am told by those who have been long intimate with his habits in private, that he leads a life of strict piety and...‎

Page 118 - She had imprudently eaten a second dinner, before her stomach, by her own account, had digested the preceding meal. She was not a strong woman, but in tolerable good health ; and but a few hours previous to the attack I saw her in excellent spirits, without the most remote appearance of indisposition. The usual applications failed of success, and she died in a few hours. This poor woman never could be persuaded to abstain from food at the stated period of meals ; and the natives were disposed to...‎

Page 209 - This grass presents so many proofs of the beneficent care of Divine Providence to the creatures of His hand, that the heart must be ungratefully cold which neglects praise and thanksgiving to the Creator, whose power and mercy bestows so great a benefit. The same might be justly urged against our insensibility, if the meanest herb or weed could speak to our hearts, each possessing, as it surely does, in its nature a beneficial property peculiar to itself. But here the blessing is brought home to...‎

Page 87 - ... unfeeling conduct towards these helpless beings, the most marked detestation has invariably been evinced towards the authors by the real Mussulmaun. I have heard of a very beautiful female slave who had been fostered by a Native lady of high rank, from her infancy. In the course of time, this female slave had arrived to the honour of being made the companion of her young master, still however, by her Begum's consent, residing with her lady, who was much attached to her. The freedom of intercourse,...‎

Page 121 - ... members of a family and the rest escaped, although in close attendance — even such as failed not to pay the last duties to the deceased according to Mussulmaun custom, which exposed them more immediately to danger if infection existed ; — yet no fears were ever entertained, nor did I ever hear an opinion expressed amongst them, that it had been or could be conveyed from one person to another. Native children generally escaped the attack, and I never heard of an infant being in the slightest...‎

Page 317 - The feast concluded, whilst the fire of charcoal retains a lively heat, these devotees commence dancing, still beating their tambourines and calling out with an audible voice, ' There is but one God ! — Mahumud is the Prophet of God ! ' Then they sing in praise of Ali, the descendants of the Prophet, and, lastly, of Syaad Ahmud Kaabeer their beloved saint. Each then puts his naked foot...‎

Page 121 - ... are alike in danger of its consequences, whether the disorder be considered infectious or not, and therefore the precautions I have urged in India, amongst the Native communities, I recommend with all humility here, that cleanliness and abstemious diet be observed among all classes of people. In accordance with the prescribed antidote to infection from scarlet fever in England, I gave camphor (to be worn about the person) to the poor in my vicinity, and to all the Natives over whom I had either...‎

Page 427 - Him should not perish, but have everlasting life ;" that " If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous ;" and that " He is the propitiation for our sins ; and not for our sins only, but also for the sins of the whole world.‎

Page 116 - This has become a law of Nature with all the sensible part of the community ; and when the cholera first made its appearance in the Upper Provinces of Hindoostaun, those Natives who observed their prescribed temperance were, when attacked, most generally preserved from the fatal consequences of the disorder. On the very first symptom of cholera occurring in a member of a Mussulmaun family, a small portion of zahur morah...‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: description of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions. Made during a twelve years' residence in their immediate society; Volume 2 of 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, B. Mir Hasan 'Ali (Mrs)
• Author: B. Mir Hasan 'Ali (Mrs)
• Publisher: Parbury, Allen, and co., 1832
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 19, 2007
• Subjects: India; Muslims