Lives of Mahomet And His Successors
Lives of Mahomet And His Successors
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They knew nothing of the luxuries of the ^mpered Greeks, and were prombited the use of wine.
Their drink was water, their food principally milk, rice, and t^e firuits of the earth, and their di^ss the coarse raiments of the desert. An army of such men was easily sustained; marched rapidly from place to place, and was fitted to cop0 with the vicissitudes of war. The interval of repose, how- ever, in the luxurious cit]^ of Damascus, and the general abundance of the fertile regions of Syria, began... to have their effect upon the Moslem t^Dops, and the good Abu Obeidah was especially scandalized at discovering that they were lapsing into the use of wine, so strongly forbidden by the proj^het. He mentioned the prevalence of this grievous sin m his letter to the Caliph, who read it in the mosque in presence of his officers. **By AUah!'* exclaimed the abstemious Omar ; " these fellows are only fit for poverty and hard fare ; what is to be done with these wine-bibbers P** " Let him who drinks wine," replied Ali, promptly, " re- ceive twenty bastinadoes on the soles of his feet." *' Grood, it shall be so," rejoined the Oatiph ; and he wrote to that effect to the commander-in-chief.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
They knew nothing of the luxuries of the ^mpered Greeks, and were prombited the use of wine.
Their drink was water, their food principally milk, rice, and t^e firuits of the earth, and their di^ss the coarse raiments of the desert. An army of such men was easily sustained; marched rapidly from place to place, and was fitted to cop0 with the vicissitudes of war. The interval of repose, how- ever, in the luxurious cit]^ of Damascus, and the general abundance of the fertile regions of Syria, began... to have their effect upon the Moslem t^Dops, and the good Abu Obeidah was especially scandalized at discovering that they were lapsing into the use of wine, so strongly forbidden by the proj^het. He mentioned the prevalence of this grievous sin m his letter to the Caliph, who read it in the mosque in presence of his officers. **By AUah!'* exclaimed the abstemious Omar ; " these fellows are only fit for poverty and hard fare ; what is to be done with these wine-bibbers P** " Let him who drinks wine," replied Ali, promptly, " re- ceive twenty bastinadoes on the soles of his feet." *' Grood, it shall be so," rejoined the Oatiph ; and he wrote to that effect to the commander-in-chief.
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