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… Islam means “ resignation ” or “ submission.” In wooing a lover your conquest is his ubmission, and your penis widens out his anus. The old sodomite is as keen to promulgate his vice as his religion, the dog !
…ce of [Persian text] which Arab mys- tics describe as being “ of a watery, lunar nature, and consonant to dogs, jackals, beetles, pools, old women painted, dreams, water pots, drunkenness, illusion, broken spears, and astrologers.” In this case the watery nature symbolizes the rose-water through which the smoke is drawn to purify and soften it. 3. Cannabis — Hashish, bhang, ganja, mariju- ana, kif, a drug much used by Yogis and Fakirs. It induces maniacal attacks, destroys the sense of proportion in time and space, and give powerful emotions to…
…nce thou hast taken to prostituting thyself to Hindus and Afghans, Nu- bian slaves and immodest boys from Bushir.2 When they saw thee of old, with thy tunic hang- ing upon thy jutting buttocks, like the flowing dra- peries of the Caliph’s tent, men said of thee : “ The complexions of the women are well shaded from the sun.” Now it is thin and transparent, that tun- ic of thine, and people are saying : “ Please Allah it may not rain ; else will the horses catch cold and die ! ”.3 Every gossip comes to me and prates of thy mis- demeanours ; my be…
…ve Reality. VI THE CURTAIN Thy podex, like a rose, within Thy buttocks, sprays of jessamine, Buds to my kisses ; then the wine Sets this old head of mine aspin, So that I push thee to thy knees— A worship, darling, not a sin. Deep as I plunge, I do not break Within the velvet of thy skin. Do what I will, thy Self is hid From me by envy of the Jinn. So, when I think, I cannot pierce The truth of things ; I cannot win Unto the real ; life’s wheel is kept From turning by its axle-pin.1 But swing thine hips and smile upon The hideous world’s malici…
…rough the vale My spear at thy djirid to tilt.5 Thy buttock-leaves to El Qahar Are of his song the lovely lilt. 1. This is the very same old fable we learnt about the Tower of Babel. 2. Jilt — the Persian has a coarser word — our English “ cockteaser.” But a translator must be allowed both latitude and modesty.
…f Habib, the piety of El Qahar, and of the great wisdom and tunefulness of his songs.3 1. These similes are very affected. 2. Dinar — a gold coin worth about 10/- 3. Evidently the reviewer is as old as the world.
The Origin of Religion. 109 Be this the song of El Qahar In gold on ivory enscrolled.5 1. Ascetic. Zahid, indifferently to represent the fat easy-going, conventional materialist, self-styled orthodox, common to all religions, and the despe- rate devotee who does not set his life at a pin’s fee when heaven is at stake. El Haji probably wishes to kill the two birds with one stone. 2. Another hint that all Religion is subjec- tive ; and that consequently mean men are Evan- gelicals, gross men Roman Catholics, cowards be- lievers in Eternal Punishm…
… as the jackal’s ! Nay ! But come to me, Habib ! I will cherish thee as my life ; I will take thee in my garden and love thee ever as of old. El Qahar will make new songs for thee, till thy fame standeth for ever among men, as the sun standeth in the sky, not to be denied.6 So sayeth El Qahar. 1. Often the case in Persia. 2. Often the case in Persia. 3. Karenian — proverbial expression. (Write this up fully). (Major Lutiy did not live long enough to accomplish this intention and we cannot trace the phrase. Possibly it is more Indian than Persia…
… back to me, Habib ! but in sooth thou art a sorry sight ! Fifteen1 years since thy birth in Iran ; yet thy flesh hangs on thee like his old clothes on Abdullah2 the blind beg- gar. Seven days did the barber and the druggist toil upon thee ; but thy foulness clings like musk. Also I have been put to great charges for thee, having shut thee up to purge and salivate.3 But oh ! how that droopeth that was straighter than a young palm ! Furthermore thou poutest, bemoan- ing thy Nubian that I have not his vigour. Thou whose podex has become like the …
… will make him some- what drunk, or even excessively drunk, and that in that condition we will lead him to the house of Fatma, where the old humbug3 shall fornicate with the ugliest of the slave girls. Also setting him upon an ass4 with his face to the tail, we will conduct him to the Qazi saying : “ These, O Qazi, be broth- ers ; but the malice of a wizard hath changed the elder and more foolish into the semblance of a drunken Mullah.” By this means will he become ashamed,5 and prate no more of beasts. 1. This ode is by most considered spuriou…
…en I smote thy buttocks with the whip, bidding thee be cheerful, thou didst rise instant with laughter and smiles. Thou didst put on thy old provoking coquetry ; though for many days thou hadst drunk nothing but water, thou didst comport thyself as one in whom the wine first blu- sheth.2 Also when my love revived for thee a little, thou didst not immodestly thrust out thy buttocks, and show bare a gaping and hungry podex. On the contrary, thou wast like a young girl, and there was much shame when thy hand led the camel to the well.3 Also there …
…in Nubian mire ; thou art fat ; thou stinkest ; thy voice is getting like a jackal’s, while thy podex is no more elastic than a ten year old
23 Ye were too childlike, too innocent, too hopeful of mankind, that ye did proclaim your pearly gos- pel to the swinish multitude ! The old law, silence, is the master : therefore whoso looketh for my name, let him find it darkling in these lines of power ! R. is the Father, W. the Son, And E. the Holy Spirit, three and one : But if they esoterically are read My equal name shall glitter out instead. Yes ! we must not sing hymns to Pan to- day : we must pretend to be German professors, with a keen scientific interest in these very re- markable …
…a goat, obtain the semen while the animal is still not quite dead, and preserve by a special process. Such a decoction, even when a year old, exhibits live and active spermatozoa when warmed by an experienced mi- croscopist on the stage of a good instrument. In- jected under the skin, it produces magnificent re- sults, both as a general tonic and a cure for impo- tence. Thus the goat, deposed from his Satanic glory, and proved (like a young virgin) useless in gonorrhoea, has at last found his causa finalis in
… the following ones. Unless indeed, this ode replaces a genuine one. For which there is not a jot or tittle of evidence. 2. This is the boldest attack on orthodoxy that we have met in Eastern literature. The paternity of Islam — its divine origin — is said to be uncer- tain ; the character of Mohammed, its mother, is vilified, the suggestion being that he received the Q’uran from all sorts of evil spirits ; while of the religion itself he asserts dullness and inutility. 3. The old humbug — lit. this Saiyid of Same- ra. A Saiyid is one of Mohamm…
…cause (to my eyes at least) it actually has that colour. 6. I suspect, maugre Mahbub’s head, that this is “ writ sarcastic.” The pompous old dullard must have seemed to our lively Abdullah very much as Southey did to Byron. Yet the Eastern is a terrible slave to convention, and may perhaps acquiesce in Hafiz as the undergraduate of to-day acquiesces in Milton. 7. The central thought of these two chapters is represented in the Buddhist philosophy, per- haps ; but in the Hindu practice, certainly. It is true that the Hindu claims the extinction o…
…situation is saved. It is undoubtedly the importance which he at- taches to Sin, Repentance, Penance, Grace, as the means of raising the old to the new Adam that cost el Haji so much pains in persecution by the more orthodox Muslim : possible the teaching of St. Paul had vaguely penetrated to the gulf with the mer- chant of Venice or Portugal, and their danger had been recognized by those who held to the simple grandeur of Islam. But clearly the belief in Evil — perhaps even a modified Manichaeism ;4 we must not forget that this heresy is a leg…
…er him slightly, and to cause him partially to doubt the reality of his present joy. In a week or so he is again drugged, dressed in his old rags, and abandoned in the same beggar’s haunt as be- fore. He wakes up utterly miserable, and consults the local Mullah as to his experience. “ My son ! ” replies the good man “ favoured of Heaven ! You have had a vision of the realms of Paradise.” He naturally wants to know how to get back, and the Mullah reiterates the well-known blessing on those who die, slaying infidels, and further indicates such an…
29 Oh come to me there, darling ! Lean upon the golden rampart, and watch for me to come ! Be first to meet me, sweetheart ! forgive me for all the wrong I did you here. I will try and be a good wife to you, darling, if you will give me one more chance to hold your love. I had heaven in your kisses, and I went to seek it in the cloister.11 I loved you al- ways ; it was but a boy’s folly ; forgive me ! I may never cling to you on earth again : pray God that Heaven may be one long, long life of such bliss as we had of one another long ago by yon …