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tunity of mentioning the four rivers of Eden which in the 

 Mohammedan tradition are the Euphrates (Furat), the Nile, 

 the Gihon (Jaihan), and the Jaxartes (Seihan). What further 

 of legend may underlie the assertion that the last two, after 

 disappearing under the earth, come to light again at the city 

 of Eome (Constantinople) I cannot say. 



25. Yank or Yuk. An idol mentioned in the Koran, 

 Sur. lxxi, in an account of the mission of Noah to the un- 

 believers of his time: "And they devised a dangerous plot 

 against Noah : and the chief men said to the others, Ye shall 

 by no means leave your gods ; neither shall ye forsake Wadd, 

 nor Sowa, nor Yaghuth, and Yauk, and Nasr." 



" Professor Palmer says it was in the figure of a horse," 

 Hughes Diet. Islam, s.v. ' Ya'uq.' See also Sale's Koran, 

 Preliminary Discourse sec. i. 



26. Scqala Sayid yang Tuhanka turunkan kapada Nabi 

 Allah Adam. Here is another mention of the blessing of cer- 

 tain SaN ids. In the earlier instance (see note 14) six was the 

 number. They are spoken of here as the descendants of Adam, 

 and must number five if my conjecture is correct. 



27. Yauvi al mahshar. " The day of assembly." One 

 of the many descriptive titles of , the judgment day. 



28. It may interest some readers if I insert here, in a con- 

 densed form, some account of these various acts of 'ibadat' 

 (adoration) obtained from Lane, Hughes, and other writers. 



TasbiJi. The. ejaculation 'Subhana 'llah', 'I extol the 

 holiness of God, or 'O holy God !' Most meritorious If re- 

 cited one hundred times, night and morning,- it is said by the 

 Prophet to atone for a man's sins however many. or great. 



Tekdis. I can get nothing satisfactory about this word. 

 Mr. Wilkinson gives it in his Dictionary with the meaning 'to 

 sanctify, sanctification.' 



Zikr. A ceremonial performance, generally by fakirs or 

 darweeshes, consisting of the repeated utterance, with appro- 

 priate gestures, of the name of God, and other pious words or 

 sentences. The public performance of zikrs by large companies 

 of darweeshes appears to be the chief delight of the crowds 



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