The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace
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He received for answer, "The blessings of Allah are with the dying whom
the well-to-do and selfish in front have passed unnoticed." The Shaykh repeated the saying to his men, and they replied: "Ebn-Hanife was a Dervish: so is this Prince--exalted be his name!" Eulogy could go no further. CHAPTER IV EL ZARIBAH "I will be their Arbiter in Religion," said the Indian Mystic in his monologue. This is to be accepted as the motive of the scheme the singular man was pursuing in the wastes of Arabia. It must be taken of course with his other declaration--"There can be no reform or refinement of faith except God be its exclusive subject; and so certainly it leads to lopping off all parasitical worships such as are given to Christ and Mahomet." Fifty years prior, disgusted with the endless and inconsequential debates and wars between Islam and Christianity, he had betaken himself to Cipango, [Footnote: Supposably Japan.] wherever that might be. There, |
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