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him who casts away all other desires. 
 
 
 
1.  Cf.  Canticles ;  and Matthew, “ What shall a 
man give in exchange for his soul ? ” 
2.  Refers to the Ghazi, still a terror to our Fron-
tier officials in N.W. India.  The method of manu-
facture is interesting.  A poor and despairing man 
is selected and watched.  One night, as he slinks 
through some deserted beggar’s haunt, he is se-
cretly drugged and conveyed to a palatial house 
with gardens and fountains.  He awakes to find 
himself robed in fine linen and purple, surrounded 
by rich wines and foods, and by an adoring bevy of 
the most luscious beauties that he can im-
agine.  He is however always kept to a certain ex-
tent under the influence of hashish, in order to 
bewilder 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 and such a Sahib — who has probably made 
himself obnoxious to the faithful in some way — as 
a suitable person to attack.  Lord Curzon however 
very wisely met this manoevre by ordering the cre-
mation of murderers of this type.  If the body of a 
Musselman is burnt he cannot go to Paradise ;  for 
the os coccygis, from which God will raise his body 
from the dust, is destroyed.   
But it would probably be waste of time to explain 
all this to Mr. Keir Hardie.