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38 with their faces on the earth, while the Moslems will walk erect, and will be borne aloft on winged camels, white as milk, with saddles of fine gold;" "When the Bridge of Surat is reached the Moslem will pass it through as a bird or an arrow and step the blissful gardens of Paradise, but Giaours, finding it as narrow as a hair's breadth and as sharp as a sword, will not be able to walk upon it, and thus shall stumble down into the lake of hell, full of boiling slime and melted sulphur;" "If a man kills an innocent cat or dog he must build as many mosques as the number of hairs on the animal, in order to escape its future punishment, but by killing obstinate Jews or Christians will be rewarded in both worlds."

Every pious Moslem has to repeat the following prayer vhen he kneels down before the throne of his most merciful Allah: "I seek refuge with Allah from Satan, the accursed; in the name of Allah, the most merciful. O Lord of all creatures, O Allah! destroy the infidels and polytheists, Thine enemies, the enemies of the religion. O Allah! make their children orphans, and defile their abodes; cause their feet to slip; give them and their families, their households and their women, their children and their relatives by marriage, their brothers and their friends, their possessions and their race, their wealth and their lands, as booty to the Moslems. O Lord of all creatures!"