The friends help the spirit which racks him to depart by blowing into his ear a few verses of the Koran; whereat the Dula, after a possession of about four hours, regains consciousness, looks around in surprise, and retires to his home fatigued but at last sane.

He who repeats the inspired words of the Koran is purged of all evil, and his breath alone, surcharged with the utterances of divinity, has power to cast out the devils of sickness.

wa rah matun lil moaminina" which being interpreted means, "We send down from the Koran that which is a cure and a mercy unto true believers."

In many cases the mother of the house or the sister, if old, widowed and in the words of the Koran "despairing of a marriage," performs the business of shopping and proves herself no less adept than her kinsman at driving a bargain.

There are those who make the pilgrimage, and repeat it, There are those who can read the Koran and learn by that They possess in the pasturage camels, and their little ones, Besides nuggets of gold all safely wrapped.

It will give an idea of this style of composition to recite the beginning: "In the name of God, most clement and merciful, Also benediction and homage to the prophet Mohammed, In the name of God, listen to the words of the author, This is what the Talebs tell, according to the august Koran.

I kept the Koran's law exact!

And tell King Chico how I turned to God, "And longed to be a Christian at the last, And sought the light, So that the accursed Koran could not cast My soul to suffer in eternal night.

The others read the Koran.

They both occupied the same room, and the master taught the young convert the whole Koran.

First is Paradise, Then the Koran, and then our Prophet great, Destroyer of false faiths and for all men The interceder.

We cannot dwell here on his educational and moral reforms, his earnest efforts to enforce the teaching of the Koran, which was his guide in his public and private life.

If they delay much longer, it will be too late; for, when the negroes have once adopted the Koran, no power on earth can induce them to change their opinions.

Some time ago, a number of handkerchiefs were brought, or rather smuggled into Mogador, having printed upon them passages from the Koran.

When Mr. Davidson was at Morocco, he prescribed some Seidlitz water for the use of the Sultan, and placed on the sides of two bottles, containing the beverage, Arabic verses from the Koran.

Suleiman is represented as reading the Koran, in the character of a devout and good man.

" These trained bands of negroes call themselves Abeed-Sidi-Bokhari, from the patron saint whom they adopted on settling in Morocco, the celebrated Sidi-Bokhari, commentator on the Koran, and a native of Bokhara, as his name implies.

His commentary is almost as much venerated as the Koran itself.

has a solid foundation, of which the corner stones are well secured, and the perfection whereof has been made known to us by God, to whom belongs all praise in his book, the Forkam (or Koran,) which admits neither of addition nor diminution.

If we are true to our salt, true to our nation, true to the songs we sing, if we are true to the Bhagwad Gita and the Koran, we would finish the programme in the remaining nine months and deliver Islam the Punjab and India.

The Persian poet, Saadi, tells the story of a young enamoured Dervish who knew the whole Koran by heart, but forgot his very alphabet in presence of the princess.

"Jehannum, where every time their skins are burned off, as the Koran says, new ones will grow to be burned off again!

There was nothing at the end of the crimson loop, save a lamail, or pocket Koran.

Even in the Master's anger, he did not throw the Koran away.

"This Koran, Rrisa, is now thine!"