"Go—but remember prayer is the bread of faith."
The Shaykh was comforted, and withdrew.
With the rising of the sun next day the caravan, numbering about three thousand souls, defiled confusedly out of the town. The Prince, who might have been first, of choice fell in behind the rest.
"Why dost thou take this place, O Prince?" asked the Shaykh, who was proud of his company, and their comparative good order.
He received for answer, "The blessings of Allah are with the dying whom the well-to-do and selfish in front have passed unnoticed."
The Shaykh repeated the saying to his men, and they replied: "Ebn-Hanife was a Dervish: so is this Prince—exalted be his name!"
Eulogy could go no further.