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"Allah hu Achbar! Allah hu Achbar! Ashhadu an la illaha illalla! " The sweetly piercing, resonant voice of the Muezzin rang far and commandingly on the clear evening air, and from bazaar and crowded street the faithful silently hurried to the mosques, leaving their slippers at the door, while others knelt where the call found them, and touched their foreheads to the ground.
In his palace by the Nile, Harrik, the half-brother of the Prince Pasha, heard it, and breaking off from conversation with two urgent visitors, passed to an alcove near, dropping a curtain behind him. Kneeling reverently on the solitary furniture of the room -- a prayer-rug from Medina -- he lost himself as completely in his devotions as though his life were an even current of unforbidden acts and motives.