Note 206 — THE PRIOR WHO BECAME A MOSLEM.
Richard Francis Burton translation
“Art thou not the slave of the Messiah, the Ráhib (monk)?” “No! I am the slave of Allah, the Rághib (desirous of mercy from the Almighty).” A fair specimen of the Saj’a or rhymed prose. Abdallah (properly “Abdu’llah”) is a kind of neutral name, neither Jewish, Moslem nor Christian; hence I adopted it (Pilgrimage i. 20).