spired,  but  he  maintained  the  superior
authority  of  the  Koran,  which  he  was  com-
missioned to  impart  to  the  world.  He
allowed  that  Moses  and  the  prophets  and
Jesus  were  all  prophets  sent  by  God,  but
he  was  the  last  and  greatest,  and  superseded
them  all.  He  had  in  his  travels  while  a
young  man  had  occasion  to  observe  the
various  sects  of  Christians  and  the  offensive
prominence  and  almost  material  interpreta-
tion that  was  given  to  the  doctrine  of  the
Trinity,  and  he  denounced  that  doctrine  as
an  abomination.  He  likewise  denounced
not  only  all  image  worship,  but  the  making
of  images  for  any  purpose,  as  a  sin,  though
he  was  obliged  to  give  way  to  the  old  Arab
superstition  of  worshipping  the  Kabah  at
Wayof  sal- Mecca. ^     Salvatiou   he    taug-ht    was    to    be

vation.  ^  ^

obtained  by  works,  by  holding  the  true  faith,
by  repeating   the  above   creed,    by   praying

^  This  is  simply  a  black  stone — possibly  an  aerolite — that  is
in  the  Mosque  at  Mecca.  A  learned  Maulvi  seriously  main-
tained to  me  that  its  worshij^  was  not  a  breach  of  the  second
Commandment,  on  the  ground  that  it  was  not  the  likeness  of
anything  in  the  heaven  above,  on  the  earth  beneath,  or  in  the
water  under  the  earth.  The  same  might  be  said  of  nearly  all
the  Hindu  idols.
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five  times  daily,  by  performing  daily  ablu-
tions^ by  fasting  in  the  month  Ramzan  from
sunrise  to  sunset  daily,  by  giving  a  fortieth
of  one's  goods  in  charity,  by  making  the
pilgrimage  to  Mecca,  and,  above  all,  by  dying
in  war  for  the  propagation  of  the  faith.
The  morality  he  inculcated  was  loose,  but  it  Morality.
