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CHAP, xl] yo'm 'a'shoora. 191
and to other eminent saints, founders of different
orders of darweeshes.* Most of the darweeshes
were Egyptians ; but there were among them many
Turks and Persians. I had not waited many
minutes before they began their exercises. Several
of them first drove back the surrounding crowd
with sticks ; but as no stick was raised at me, I
did not retire so far as I ought to have done; and
before I was aware of what the darweeshes were
about to do, forty of them, with extended arms and
joined hands, had formed a large ring, in which I
found myself enclosed. For a moment I felt half
inclined to remain where I was, and join in the
zikr; bow, and repeat the name of God; but
another moment's reflection on the absurdity of the
performance, and the risk of my being discovered
to be no darweesh, decided me otherwise; so, parting
the hands of two of the darweeshes, I passed outside the ring. The darweeshes who formed the
large ring (which enclosed four of the marble
columns of the portico) now commenced their zikr ;
exclaiming over and over again, " Allah !" and, at
each exclamation, bowing the head and body, and
taking a step to the right; so that the whole
ring moved rapidly round. As soon as they commenced this exercise, another darweesh, a Turk,
of the order of Mowlawees, in the middle of the
circle, began to whirl; using both his feet to effect
* The words were, " Ya Aboo-Bekr, Ya 'Omar, Ya 'Osman, Ya
'Alee, Ya Hasan, Ya Hoseyn, Ya seyyid Ahmad Rifa'ah, Ya seyyid
'Abd-el-Ka'dir El-Geel'anee, Yd seyyid Ahmad El-Bedawee, Ya seyyid
Ibraheem Ed-Dasookee."
| Title | An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians - 2 |
| Creator | Lane, Edward William |
| Publisher | C. Knight and Co. |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Date | 1842 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000203 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | CHAP, xl] yo'm 'a'shoora. 191 and to other eminent saints, founders of different orders of darweeshes.* Most of the darweeshes were Egyptians ; but there were among them many Turks and Persians. I had not waited many minutes before they began their exercises. Several of them first drove back the surrounding crowd with sticks ; but as no stick was raised at me, I did not retire so far as I ought to have done; and before I was aware of what the darweeshes were about to do, forty of them, with extended arms and joined hands, had formed a large ring, in which I found myself enclosed. For a moment I felt half inclined to remain where I was, and join in the zikr; bow, and repeat the name of God; but another moment's reflection on the absurdity of the performance, and the risk of my being discovered to be no darweesh, decided me otherwise; so, parting the hands of two of the darweeshes, I passed outside the ring. The darweeshes who formed the large ring (which enclosed four of the marble columns of the portico) now commenced their zikr ; exclaiming over and over again, " Allah !" and, at each exclamation, bowing the head and body, and taking a step to the right; so that the whole ring moved rapidly round. As soon as they commenced this exercise, another darweesh, a Turk, of the order of Mowlawees, in the middle of the circle, began to whirl; using both his feet to effect * The words were, " Ya Aboo-Bekr, Ya 'Omar, Ya 'Osman, Ya 'Alee, Ya Hasan, Ya Hoseyn, Ya seyyid Ahmad Rifa'ah, Ya seyyid 'Abd-el-Ka'dir El-Geel'anee, Yd seyyid Ahmad El-Bedawee, Ya seyyid Ibraheem Ed-Dasookee." |
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