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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70800	The present state of the empire of Morocco with a faithful account of the manners, religion, and government of that people / by Monsieur de St. Olon.	Pidou de Saint-Olon, Monsieur (François), 1646-1720.; Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660-1718.	1695 (1695)	Wing P2159; ESTC R24510	66,725	261

Aly and Fatima his Son-in-Law and Daughter and is prouder of this Parentage than of the long Train of Kings of his Family Which sufficiently shows that his Predecessors who us'd also to style themselves Miramoulins which signifies Emperors of the Faithful made use of a Religious Pretence for their own Establishment And now since I have mention'd this it may not be amiss to say something of their Religion The Alcoran is its Foundation and the Moors and Arabs who explain that Book after a particular way follow the ridiculous Expositions which their Doctor Melish one of the four Chiefs of Mahomet's Sect has left them of it grounding their Faith on certain Fundamental Points without which they give out 't is impossible to be sav'd They hold that there is but One GOD without any Trinity of Persons that JESUS CHRIST was a great Prophet born of a Virgin whose Name was Mary that his Incarnation was such as we believe it and even foretold her by the Arch-Angel Gabriel God's Embassador that he was the holiest of Men and wrought many Miracles but that he did not die as we believe having been assum'd into Heaven where he is in Body and Soul and that when Judas would have betray'd him to the Jews one of his Disciples whom God caus'd to appear in his likeness was crucified in his stead and that 't is this Disciple we adore They also believe that the same Jesus Christ is to return to live forty Years on Earth to re-unite all Nations under one Belief that he will be laid in the Tomb which Mahomet caus'd to be plac'd on the Right-hand of his that those who profess'd the Doctrine of Christ till Mahomet's Coming shall be sav'd but that what we now believe differs from what he taught which also the persecuting Jews kept him from bringing to Perfection and that therefore those who will not follow the Precepts of their Prophet whom they call God's great Favorite and the Explainer of his Will and who was sent by God only to finish what the other had but begun are to be damn'd eternally They admit the Books of Moses the Psalms of David the Gospel as Sergius has expounded it to them and the Alcoran as Holy Writ They believe a Heaven and a Hell the Resurrection and Predestination placing the Eternal Blessings that are to be the Reward of the Faithful in a sight of the Sovereign Being of his Angels and of Mahomet and besides in the Enjoyment of Seventy Virgins with whom they are continually to be wrapt in Extasies of Delight without impairing or rather annihilating their Virginity they are also fondly possess'd with the Hopes of indulging their Appetites with all sorts of most delicious Food and of bathing themselves in Rivers of Milk Honey and Rose-Water nay they even believe that the very Excrements of the Body shall evaporate in most grateful Sweats and that they are to take up their Lodging in Banquetting-Houses and stately Palaces built with Pearl and precious Stone They have a Lent or Ramadan which lasts thirty Days and keep it so strictly that they do not only religiously abstain from eating or drinking the least thing from the very dawn to the first appearance of the Stars on the Evening but also forbear smoaking Tobacco and smelling any Perfumes indeed I must needs own that they make themselves large amends for this abstinence at Night passing it generally at that time in all manner of Luxury and Licentiousness On the Eve of that Ramadan they prepare themselves for its observation by publick Rejoycings that are attended with discharges of Fusils and Muskets and with repeated Acclamations of Allah more like Howlings than joyful Shouts every one of them watches that he may be the first who discovers the Moon and they fire their Muskets at that Planet as soon as they perceive it which done they meet to say their Prayers with their Marabot at the head of them and kneel rise and prostrate themselves on the ground several times still turn'd towards the East They have three Easters which they keep Holy for seven days together however without abstaining from Buying or Selling as they do on Fridays that are their Lord's Days The first Easter is kept on the first day of the Moon that comes after their Ramadan and if it happens to fall on a Saturday which is the Sabbath of the Jews those of that Nation in this Empire are oblig'd to present the King with a Hen and ten Chickens of Gold or with the value of them in Money On the first Day of that Easter the King commonly causes all the Prisoners in the Town where he then is to be brought before him and either Absolves them or puts them to death according to their Crimes and the humour he is in He put Twenty Criminals to death after this manner on the third Day of this Easter which happen'd to be the fourth after my arrival at Mickeness The second Easter which they call The Great is twenty Days after that of Ramadan They use then to sacrifice to Mahomet as many Sheep as there are Male Children in each Family and this in Memory of the Sacrifice which was offer'd by Abraham the Father of Ismael the Patriarch of the Arabian Sarazens from whom they believe their Prophet's Mother deriv'd her Original The King makes a publick Ceremony of it at a Chappel or as they term it at a Saint about a quarter of a League from Mickeness but with the addition of this superstitious Circumstance As soon as the Sheep's Throat has been cut for they take great care not to kill otherwise all the Animals they are to eat believing they wou'd not bleed enough another way which wou'd make them impure and forbidden Flesh As soon I say as the Sheep's Throat has been cut a Moor on Horse-back takes it wraps it up in a Cloth and gallops away with it full speed to the Alcassave which is the King's Palace Now if when he is got thither the Sheep is still alive they draw a good Omen from it and there is great rejoycing But if it die by the way then every one goes home very doleful and there is an end of the Festival The third Easter which falls always three Moons and two Days after the second is kept in honour of Mahomet's Birth and on its first Day the Moors eat Hasty-Pudding in remembrance of that which was eaten by that Prophet They light great numbers of Lamps and Wax Tapers in the Mosques on the Night before that Easter and all their Talbes or Priests sing his Praise without ceasing till Morning They Solemnize St. John Baptist's Day by Bonefires which they make in their Gardens where they burn a great deal of Incense round their Fruit-Trees to entitle them to the Blessing of Heaven They admit of Circumcision but neither fix the Age of those that are to be Circumcis'd nor the time when They all say the Sala or Prayer which they also call the