While Reciting Some
Prayers, He Steps Forward Into The Rodha, Where He Performs A Short
Prayer, With Four Prostrations, As A Salutation To The Mosque, During
Which He Is Enjoined To Recite The Two Short Chapters (109th And 112th)
Of The Koran.
He then passes through one of the small doors of the
partition of the Rodha, and walks slowly towards the railing of the
Hedjra, before the western window of which, on its
[P.339] south side, he takes his stand; with arms half raised he
addresses his invocations to Mohammed, in the words "Salam aleyka ya
Mohammed, Salam ya Rasoul illah," &c. recapitulating about twenty of the
different surnames or honorable titles of Mohammed, and prefixing to
each of them "Salam aleyk." He next invokes his intercession in heaven,
and distinctly mentions the names of all those of his relations and
friends whom he is desirous to include in his prayers: it is for this
reason, that an inhabitant of Medina never receives a letter from
abroad, without being entreated, at the end of it, to mention the
writer's name at the tomb of the Prophet. If the pilgrim is delegated on
the pilgrimage for another, he is bound here to mention the name of his
principal. In this prayer an expression is used, as at all the places
visited for their sanctity about the town, but which appeared to me
little calculated to inspire the visiter with humane or charitable
feelings; among other favours supplicated in prayer to the Deity, the
following request is made:
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