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' ...That honoured lady , too , growing eager for such high enterprise , and anxious to take her part with the victors by the sea , proferred her request , and with "Thou art of the first" - an irrefragable word - was declared of the first of the troop which was thus gladdened with good tidings , and rejoiced in heart ; and , according as the Prophet said , so it was ' ... ' they collected ships and boats , and embarking on them , and circling about the seas , they came to the island of Cyprus . And on landing at a spot about two hours distant from the port of Túzla , the holy woman (may God be pleased with her) was set with all honour on a mule ; and on arriving at the place where now her luminous tomb is seen , they were attacked by Genoese infidels , and falling from her beast she broke her pellucid neck , and yielded up her victorious soul , and in that fragrant spot was at once buried . And it is clear that that irrefragable prophetic word "Thou art of the first" , is of the number of the manifest miracles of Mohammad .'... |
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...' One of the miracles of that exalted lady (may God be pleased with her) is this : On her journey from Jerusalem to Ramla she alighted on her way as the guest of a Christian monk . She beheld in the house three huge stones like columns , and to show a marvel and display saintship she desired to buy the said stones from the monk . The monk fully persuaded of the impossibility of transporting the stones and carrying them away , gave them as a present to the exalted lady . She accepted them , and said - " Let them remain by way of trust ; in due time they will be taken away " , and departed . And on the evening of her burial the said stones , by the might of the Lord of the worlds , moved from their place , and walking in the sea - a wonderful sight - appeared in this fragrant place ; and one of them set itself at her sacred head , one at her holy feet , and the other stone , as though suspended over them , rested there by the power of God . ' ... |
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Turkish Manuscript (1800) Translated by C. D. Cobham - Excerpta Cypria |
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The Tekke of Umm Harám
