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 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 ." 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.

They observe two annual festivals, called