2 50 Id KAYAT SAI F-AL-YEZAN. 



that assemble in the mosques and streets of Cairo on great 

 festivals. Lane, in his 'Modern Egyptians' gives detailed des- 

 criptions of this ceremony as witnessed by him. A zikr may, 

 however, be performed by one or two persons as in the 

 text. 



Tahmid. The ejaculation 'Al-Hamdu li-'llah.' 'God be 

 praised.' "The Prophet said, 'He who recites the Tahmid a 

 hundred times in the morning and again a hundred times in 

 the evening shall be like a person who has provided a hundred 

 horsemen for a 'jihad' or religious war. 



Tamjich The expression 'La haula wa la kuata ilia bi- 

 'llahi '1 'aliyi '1-azim.' ' There is no power and strength but 

 in God, the High, the Great.' " The Prophet said, 'Eecite very 

 frequently the Tamjid, for these words are one of the treasures 

 of Paradise. For there is no escape from God but with God. 

 And God will open to the reciter thereof seventy doors of es- 

 cape from evil.' " 



TahliL The sentence 'Lallaha ilia Tlah'. 'There is no 

 deity but God.' " The Prophet said, ' That person who recites 

 the Talilil one hundred times shall receive rewards equal to 

 the emancipating of ten slaves, and shall have one hundred 

 good deeds recorded to his account, and one hundred of his 

 sins shall be blotted out, and the words shall be a protection 

 from the devil.' " 



29. Wafat <tl Iiisan u al J ami. 'The Death of mankind 

 and of jinn,' i.e. The victorious destroyer of his enemies of 

 both races. 



30. Kerna aim mengambil hebat peksrjaan. A very ob- 

 scure phrase. In the lithograph edition the word 'karajaan' is 

 substituted for 'pekerjaan,' but that is no better. 



3 1 . Velontaran Nimrud, The legend relates that 



Nimrud intended to burn Abraham upon a pyre so huge that 

 it took all the people of Babel forty days to collect- the wood 

 lor it and construct it. When the time came the tyrant cast 

 the Patriarch upon the pyre by means of an engine which 

 Satan himself had suggested to him. See Weil's 'Biblical 

 Legends,' 



Jour. Straits Branch 



