THE CEYLON MUHAMMADANS. 
and also their skins, and they shall be beaten with 
maces of iron. So often as they shall endeavour to 
get out of bell, because of the anguish of their tor- 
ments, they shall be dragged back into the same, 
and their tormentors shall say unto them. Taste ye 
the pains of burning. God shall introduce those who 
believe and act righteously into gardens, through 
which rivers flow ; they shall be adorned therein with 
bracelets of God, and pearls, and their vestures 
therein shall be silk. They are directed into a good 
saying, and are directed into the honourable way. 
But those who shall disbelieve, and obstruct the 
way of God, and hinder men from visiting the holy 
temple of Mecca, which we have appointed for a 
place of worship unto all men.” 
“ Ail sorts of cattle are allowed you to eat, except 
what hath been read unto you in former passages of 
the Koran to be forbidden, but depart from the 
abomination of idols, and avoid speaking that which 
is false.” (See ! Hear ! ! — P. D. M. ) Then see this, 
the commencement of chapter the 83rd : — “ Woe unto 
you, who give short measure or weight, who, when 
they receive by measure from ocher men, take the 
full, but when you measure unto them, or weigh 
unto them, defraud ! ” 
Chapter 4th presents some curious features of in- 
struction in regard to women, commencing : — “Oh, men,, 
fear your Lord who hath created you out of one man, 
and out of him created his wife, and from them two 
hath multiplied many men and women, who have 
borne you, for God is watching over you. And give 
the orphans, when they come to age, their substance, 
and render them not in exchange bad for good, and 
devour not their substance, by adding it to your 
substance, for this is a great sin. And if ye fear that 
ye shall not act with equity towards orphans of the 
female sex, take in marr age of such other w'omen as 
please you, two, or three, or four, and not more. But 
if ye fear that ye cannot act equitably towards so 
many, marry one oydy, or the slaves wdiich ye shall 
have acquired. This will be easier, that ye swerve 
not from righteousness, and give women their dowry 
freely, but, if they voluntarily remit unto you any 
part of it, enjoy it, with satisfaction and advantage, 
and give not unto those who sre weak of under- 
standing the substance which God hath appointed you 
to preserve for them, and maintain them throughout, 
clothe them, and speak kindly to to them, and ex- 
amine the orphans, until they attain the age of marriage. 
But if ye perceive they are able to manage their 
affairs well, deliver their substance unto them, and 
waste it not extravagantly, or hastily, because they 
