AN ARAB HORSE DEALER'S WARRANTY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2176, 19 June 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN ARAB HORSE DEALER'S WARRANTY.

The following is the literal translation of a certificate recently given by an Arab horse-dealer to one of his customers :—: — "Iv the name of God, compassionate and merciful, thanks be to God the Lord of the universe. Prayer and health to the most illustrious of the prophets, to his posterity and to .ill friends Thanks be to God that by his will the firmament moves, that by his miuhfcy power he has created the world, the birds, horses, and every living thing, and to Adam also, whom He commanded His> angels themselves to honour. To some of these beings living from the creation the Lord pro mised His favour, happiness, and para di3e, and for others Hi 1 decreed scorn and Hio vengeance, which is the hell announced fiom eternity. Thus it is, as the Lord hath said, \e has omitted nothing in the book which wis for tin 5 pleasure of man. He has granted to him the pas&ion of love for women, of affection for children, for thoroughbred horses, for birds, and every living thing, and for jrold and silver heaped up to hundredweights. And as he has also said, the stable of your horse shall drive away your enemies and those of your God. His shoulders are glory, his entrails are hidden treasure 0 , and his neigh serves to driv e away the Devil anil his armies. All this that has been said comes from the prophet (Mahoma) on the subject of horses, and on him may the prayer and the peace of God rest. And finally this testifies that the mare sold to Don Fulano de Tal, of the illustrious Spanish nat'on, is one of the mares of pure blood and of the race of Koheylan Agviz, h five years old, has a small star on the forehead, ami another small mark on the right foot. The present certificate has been written in the name of the bearer, and on the fifth day of the holy month of Kamazan, and in the year 1302. (Signed) Ahued.

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