The story of a pilgrimage to Hijaz / by H.H. the Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam.

  • Sultan Jahan I of Bhopal
Date:
1909
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: The story of a pilgrimage to Hijaz / by H.H. the Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    43/428 page 37
    in-law all sorts of questions as to their condition. When he asked her about their means of live- lihood, she rephed that they were precarious and that she and her husband lived in great poverty and distress. She also made many other com- plaints. Abraham asked her to greet her husband on his return and to tell him to change the framework of his door, which was unfit for its purpose. Abraham then started for home. At sunset Ishmael returned to his house and perceiv- ing that hght and blessing had descended on his house, he asked his wife if she had received any visitor. She answered that a venerable man had come mounted on a horse, and she described his features and appearance. Ishmael guessed that it was his father, for his mother had often described him. He then asked his wife if the stranger had said anything. In reply she told the whole story of the visit and repeated his message. Ishmael thereupon said to his wife: ^ ‘ The stranger was my father who has signified that I should put thee away. Go thou there- fore to thy father’s house for I have no more to do with thee. ’ ’ After this he married another girl of the same clan, Sayyada, the daughter of
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3