[148]. The Khateeb always closes his exhortation with one or two traditions of the Prophet.
[149]. The five daily prayers ordained by the Kur-án.
[150]. This is always the same, or nearly so.
[151]. Kur-án, chap. xxvi., last verse.
[152]. Idem., chap. xxxiii., v. 56.
[153]. The patriarch Abraham.
[154]. The reigning Sultán at the time when the above was written.
[155]. This sentence, beginning “O God, frustrate,” was not inserted in one copy of this prayer, which I obtained from an Imám. Another Imám, at whose dictation I wrote the copy here translated, told me that this sentence and some others were often omitted.
[156]. Kur-án, chap. vii., v. 22.
[157]. Ibid., chap. xvi., v. 92.