ax in his charitable duties of sharing with the
indigent all that he had, and with the same disregard to his own
enjoyments.'

I have but little to add, as regards the manner of worship amongst my
Mussulmaun acquaintance; but here I cannot omit remarking, that the women
are devout in their prayers and strict in their observance of ordinances.
That they are not more generally educated is much to be regretted; this,
however, is their misfortune, not their fault. The Mussulmaun faith does
not exclude the females from a participation in the Eternal world,[21]--as
has so often been assorted by people who could not have known them,--and
the good Mussulmaun proves it by his instruction of the females under his
control in the doctrines of Mahumud, and who he believes to be as much
dependent on him for guidance on the road to heaven, as for personal
protection from want or worldly dangers.

The pure life of Fatima, Mahumud's only daughter, is greatly esteemed as
an example of female excellence, whom they strive to imitate as much as
possible, as well in religious as in moral or domestic duties. They are
zealous to fulfil all the ordinances of their particular faith,--and I
have had the best possible opportunity of studying their
character,--devotion to God being the foundation on which every principal
action of their lives seems to rest.

In my delineation of character, whether male or female, I must not be
supposed to mean the whole mass of the Mussulmaun population. There are
good and bad of every class or profession of people; it has been my good
fortune to be an inmate with the pious of that faith, and from their
practice I have been aided in acquiring a knowledge of what constitutes a
true disciple of Mahumud.

[1] The writer mixes up the Persian and Arabic names of the hours of
prayer. The proper names, according to this list, are: i,
Namaz-i-Subh, from dawn to sunrise; ii, Salatu'l-Zuhr, when the
sun has begun to decline; iii, Salatu'l 'Asr, midway between
Nos. ii and iv; iv, Sala tu'l-Maghrib, a few minutes after sunset;
v, Salatu'l 'Isha, when night has closed in.

[2] _Namaz-i-Tahajjid_, the prayer after midnight.

[3] _Wazifah_, 'a daily ration of food', a term used for the daily
lesson or portion of the _Koran_ read by devout Musalmans. The
_Koran_ is divided into thirty lessons (_siparah_) for use
during the month Ramazan.

[4] Special readers (_muqri_) of the _Koran_ are