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they are under special laws^ whether they be hostile^, or under 
covenant of peace, or under tribute. We may marry the 
women of the Kitabis of any description. Now, if any one 
asserts that it is not lawful to show kindness to a Kitabi, 
let him tell me what he would do with a Kitabi wife, seeing 
that God has commanded us to treat our wives with kindness 
and beneficence, and the prophet has enjoined it. There- 
fore, if this were true with regard to the Kitabi wife of a Mos- 
lim, there would absolutely be no difference, but that of sex, 
between her, and her father, and brothers ; so that whatever 
kindness and beneficence are due to his wife, the daughter of 
his connections by marriage, are undoubtedly due to those 
connections themselves. And the Emir of Masina the Ful- 
lani spoke to me both ignorantly and inhumanely about 
this Englishman, and insisted on absurd and frivolous postu- 
lates. And he — nay, his doctors, without learning, piety, or 
religion — adduced as evidence certain verses from the book of 
God, which were revealed about hypocrites, about 'Abdalhih 
ben ObbaiE'bn Salul* and his compeers; and they disgraced 
themselves by the display of their ignorance of the Kuran 
and Sunna. Nay, they could not adduce a single word out 
of the Sunna, nor a sentence from the Canon Lawfj which 
is their learning, notwithstanding their ignorance of it ! 
Since they did not find either in the Sunna or Canon Law 
anything that agrees with their aims, but only what is merely 
contrary to them, they had recourse to the Kuran, and they 
perverted it violently, iniquitously, ignorantly, carelessly, 
derisively, and sportively. But woe to them for what their 
hands have written ; and woe to them for the reward they 
will reap ! Among what I said to them was this: — If what 
you aim at were a part of the Mohammedan religion either 
theoretically or practically, I would have outrun you in re- 
ceiving it ; and Khalil ben 'Abdallah, and 'Othman ben Mo- 
hammed Bello, the two descendants of Fodiye, would have 
* This is a noted personage in the Kuran. 
