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Valeat quantum valere potest.

"A Muslim cannot obtain anything better than an amiable and beautiful wife, sucb a wife who, wben ordered by ber busband to do a thing, will obey, and ik ber husband looks at her will be bappy; and if ber busband swears by ber, she will make bim a swearer of truth; and if be be absent from ber, sbe will bonour bim with bcr own person and property.”

Al Janat taht aqdămi-l-Ummahāt.

Paradise is at the foot of the Mother.

MOHAMMAD.

FOR

Polygamy/

There shall be no widows in the land,

For I will marry them all;

There shall be no orphans,

For I will father them all."

(Old Play.)

PARIS

CHARLES CARRINGTON

PUBLISHER OF MEDICAL, FOLKLORE AND HISTORICAL WORKS

13, Faubourg Montmartre

MDCCCXCVII

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