476 A TRANSLATION OF THE KEDDA ANNALS. 
tfwy would send for all the people to come to the audience 
hall bringing 1 with them all the idols which they were wont 
to worship, and the idols which had been h a ded down by 
the o'd men of former days. The request was obeyed and 
all the idols kept and possessed by .he people were at that 
very time brou ht down and there destroyed and burned to 
the dust; no one was sorry at this demolition of their false 
gods, all were glad to enter the pale of Islamisni. 
Sheikh Abdulhi after this said to the four n antris, what 
is the name of your prince. They replied his name is Fra 
Ong M&hawangsa. Well, said the former, let us change it 
for one in the language of Islam, and Malayoo. After some 
consultation the name of the Rdja was changed at his re¬ 
quest, and by Sheikh Abdullo, to ' ultan MulzHtulshah or 
Mazhlful-hah, because, said the Sheikh, it is a celebrated 
name; and is found in the koian, It is a name that is 
greater than every other in this world. 
The Raja now built mosques wherever the population 
was considerable, and directed that to each there should be 
attached forty-four of the inhabitants alone, as a settled 
congregation, for a less number would have been too few 
for the duties of religion. So mosques were erected and 
great drums were attached to them to be beaten to call the 
people to prayer on Fridays, but infidels were expelled 
from the mosques. 
Sheikh Abdulla continued for some to instruct the peop^ 
in the religion of Islam, people flocking to him from all 
the coast and bays, and districts of Kedda and its vicinity. 
In fact he initiated them in all its forms and ceremonies. 
The news of this conversion of the Kedda people by Sheikh 
Abdulid reach' d Acheh; and the Sultan of that country, 
and Sheik Noor Aladin sent the following to Kedda:— 
First the Siratulmustugim ) )a\j<c 
Secondly the Malim Hetam ^1*,* 
or Bab til Nik ah xCxi 
The Sultan and Sheikh Noor Aladin's letter and two books 
arrived at Kedda and the following was the substance ot it. 
‘ I his letter is irnrn the Sultan of Acheh and Noor Aladadin 
to our brother the Sultan of Kedda, and Sheikh Abdulla of 
\emen, now in Kedda We have sent two religious books, in 
older that the t iih of Islam may be firmly established and the 
people be lully instructed in their duties, aud in the rites of the 
faith.” A letter in reply was sent by the Raja, and .Sheikh 
