ANOTHER PITIFUL TALE OF LOVE.
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ANOTHER PITIFUL TALE OF LOVE
AND here is a similar love story.
It is said that ʾAbd-Allâh-ibn-Muʾaʾmr, el-Kîsy, used to tell the following tale:—
I one year made the pilgrimage to the Sacred House of God; and when my pilgrimage was ended, I determined to visit the tomb of the Prophet.[1] And one night while I was sitting between the tomb and the Ráwdat,[2] lo, I heard some one sighing
- ↑ Muhammadans hold the pilgrimage to Mekkah to be so necessary to salvation, that, according to a tradition of their Prophet, he who dies without performing it may as well die a Jew or a Christian. To the Kaʾabah, therefore, every Muslim who has health and means sufficient, ought once at least in his life to go on pilgrimage. A visit to the tomb of the Prophet at el-Medînah is constantly the sequel to the pilgrimage to Mekkah, from which place el-Medînah lies 200 miles to the north-west. It is considered a pious custom, and beneficial to him who observes it, but not indispensable to salvation.
- ↑ The following is the account of the Ráwdat given in Burton's "Pilgrimage to El Medînah and Mecca":—"Arrived at the western small door in the dwarf wall, we entered the celebrated spot called El Rauzah, or the Garden, after a saying
