Her case was hopeless; she was sinking--in plain words, she was dying--and if her father did not come before the morrow he would come too late to find her alive.
Then the black women fell to weeping and wailing, and after that to spiritual conflict.

Both were born in Islam, but Fatimah had secretly become a Jewess by persuasion of her mistress who was dead.

She was, therefore, for sending for the Chacham.

But Habeebah had remained a Muslim, and she was for calling the Imam.

"The Imam is good, the Imam is holy; who so good and holy as the Imam ?" "Nay, but our Sidi holds not with the Imam, for our lord is a Jew, and our lord is our master, our lord is our sultan, our lord is our king." "Shoof! What is Sidi against paradise?
And paradise is for her who makes a follower of Moosa into a follower of Mohammed.