There is no condition not found with them.

Some are poor, yet not in need;

Others are abused by the demon,

Others own nothing but their clubs.

There are those who make the pilgrimage, and repeat it,

There are those who can read the Koran and learn by that

They possess in the pasturage camels, and their little ones,

Besides nuggets of gold all safely wrapped."

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Another style, no less sought for among the Berbers inhabiting cities, is the "complaint" which flourished in lower Morocco, where it is known under the Arab name of Lqist (history). When the subject is religious, they call it Nadith (tradition). One of the most celebrated is that wherein they tell of the descent into the infernal regions of a young man in search of his father and mother. It will give an idea of this style of composition to recite the beginning: