assist you against your enemies, and will set your feet fast, but as for the infidels, let them perish, and their works shall God render vain[1]." Four months of the year are accounted sacred, particularly the night of Al-Kadr, when the Koran came down from heaven, though the Moslem doctors are not agreed where exactly to fix it. Southey has arrayed this fiction with the charms of poetry.
"This was that most holy night
When all created things know and adore
The pow'r that made them, insects, beasts, and birds,
The water-dwellers, herbs, and trees, and stones,
Yea, earth and ocean, and the infinite heav'n
With all its worlds. Man only does not know
The universal Sabbath, does not join
With nature in her homage. Yet the pray'r
Flows from the righteous with intenser love,
A holier calm succeeds, and sweeter dreams
Visit the slumbers of the penitent[2]."
They observe two annual festivals, called
