It will be remembered how 'Muridism,' the spirit of religious enthusiasm inflaming political hostility, was stirred up by the Mullahs of the Caucasus against the Russians, and embittered the resistance of the tribes.
Under the exhortations of these Mullahstheir students often became Ghazis.
Pennell tells us, the outlaws who live by raiding and robbery, and the Mullahs who detest the infidel and fear his rule, are the fomenters of crime and outrage.
You were going to silence the mullahs when they preached sedition and to free Chiltistan from their tyranny.
The angels will fight by our side--so the Mullahs have said---and no man who fights with faith will be hurt.
And let him send the news to the Mullahs in the Hills.
He remembered how lightly Shere Ali had been wont to speak of the superstitions of the Mohammedans and in what contempt he held the Mullahs of his country.
It is written, and the Mullahs have read the writing and translated it through Chiltistan.
The Mullahsin the Hills speak only ignorance and folly.
For a fortnight after my coming the Mullahsstill had hopes.
I have kept my Mullahs and my people quiet all these years.
Abuse of the Mullahswas dangerous--as dangerous to listen to as to speak.
They would have listened to the exhortations of the mullahs without anything coming of it, so long as no leader appeared.
A Mameluke army on its way to war would have mullahs praying for victory and a mounted band playing martial music on kettledrums, trumpets, and hautboys.
And as he stood so, six other mullahs came to him and began to argue with him in low tones, he browbeating them all with furious words hissed between half-closed teeth.
There were only a few lines, written in Arabic, which all mullahs are supposed to be able to read, and they were signed with a strange scrawl that might have meant anything.
Frank, and his mental question was being asked by the three Mullahs who still stood like so many statues.
In an instant one of the Mullahs said scornfully-- "The infidel Frank lies unto you, Emir.
Mullahs and Ibrahim, a skeleton hand suddenly darted out, holding a knife and pointed to a small, round, black spot close to the dark backbone.
At each end of the mosque there is a set of five rooms for the mullahs who conducted the service; above them are galleries for the ladies of the zanana.
Surrounding the central chamber are eight smaller ones for the mullahs who chanted the Koran and for musicians who played soft Indian and Persian melodies.
The times of prayer are not observed save by the ah-hongs and mullahs and a few of the old men.
In the first, two women and several men are coming before the Mullahs for marriage or divorce; large heads of sugar carried into the presence hint at bribery as a factor in the case.
In many cases the mullahs are provided for entirely by the freewill offerings of the people, all gifts being sent anonymously.
Here is a story which was told us in Kerman, illustrating how loath the mullahs are to give anything away.
Thirdly, all good Moslems are supposed to give voluntarily to the mullahs a tithe of all they possess, also alms to the poor.
All these Isphahan mullahs had proved themselves hostile to the presence of foreigners, and on more than one occasion they had endeavoured, by preaching against them in the mosques, to inflame the populace and cause a riot.
On one occasion I went to a wedding at the house of one of the chief mullahs of the town.
All the mullahs and people would be angry if the governor did not respect it.
Our faithful were not very learned; Mullahs had assured me they were nothing but a confused and tasteless collection of monstrosities, as pernicious to our civilisation as dangerous to our belief in Allah and His Prophet.
But," asked Akbar, impatiently, "what do your Mullahs and their followers want?
In all this the Mullahs were foremost, who, as you understand, consider themselves as the most injured.
Yesterday a number of Ulamas and Mullahs were assembled in one of the great halls of the palace.
The Mullahs are also taught to explain to all villagers that our scriptures condemn opposition to the ruling power, and that loyalty to the Sovereign is a religious duty.
The ancestor also presented the Mullah of the mosque with a head-dress, which is still worn by successive Mullahs on the occasion of the anniversary festival.
The loyalty of the Musaliars andMullahs is thus assured.
Conversion had to be regulated; the Mullahs had to be instructed; the ignorance of the people had to be removed.
He collected Italian paintings of the Virgin for his palace, even scandalizing the mullahs by hanging one in the Diwan- i-Am, and whenever one of the Jesuit fathers journeyed to Goa, there was always a request for more Christian art.
The Persian Shi'ite mullahs will certainly be powerful enough then to demand he be tried and executed on charges of heresy.
And to the Holy Prophet, on whom be peace," one of the white-bearded mullahs shouted through the silence.
For him God is everywhere, not just where the mullahs choose to put Him.
We could wear tight trousers, which none of the women here in Surat dare for fear the mullahs will condemn them.
The crowd erupted again, the mullahs and many others urging his death, the young followers decrying it.
The Jesuits' hopes soared when they were immediately invited to debate the orthodox Islamic mullahs at Akman's court.
When I allowed him to confront the mullahs who accused him, he refused to recite the Kalima, 'There is no God but Allah.
The mullahs say we must guide our lives by the Laws of the Prophet, but Sufis know God can only be reached through love.
In deference to the ceremonial significance of this holy Muslim occasion, there would be no wine until after the Shi'ite mullahs had left.
We have refuted the Islamic mullahs in His Majesty's very presence, and shown him the falsity of their Prophet and his laws.
Other mullahs clustered around him immediately and joined his call.
The mullahs claim that if he's dead, the inspiration for heresy will die with him.
So if the mullahs want him so badly, why not let them have him?
She forbade Sunni mullahs even to attend the wedding.
Their scepticism and extortion had tired their subjects, and the mullahs gave Yusef a ``fetva'' authorzing him to remove them in the interest of religion.
The sirdars are hereditary nobles, the khans are representatives of the people, and the mullahs of Mahommedan religion.
The mullahs take their place in one or the other according to their individual rank.
Foreign and Christian professors fill the chairs of science, mathematics and languages, while ablemullahs give instruction in the Koran and direct the students in the daily exercise of the Mohammedan rites.
The heart was out of that great army which had embarked to the sound of trumpets and the blessings of the Mullahs but ten weeks before, and they sailed away a beaten force.
In matters relating to religion the Mullahshave shown themselves to be ready liars and shameless forgers.
The leaders were enlightened Moslems, and even mullahs of the Shiahs.
These evil feelings are shown specially against the Mullahs and the rulers.
He compares themullahs to a "host of foul reptiles who befoul and pollute the pure water of life so that it waxeth loathsome and abominable.
The Shiahs are called "foul Guebres" and the Mullahsheaped with abuse.
He pronounced the Shah free from blame regarding the death of the Bab[275] and the persecutions of the Babis, casting the responsibility and reproach on the mullahs and the Ministers of State.
Dull silence followed; the murzas, the agas, and the mullahs looked on the face of the Khan, as on the sun, holding the breath in their breasts.
He was sitting at the tent in the midst of mullahsand agas in expectation of news; while waiting, he was eating dates from a silver plate standing near.
The Mullahs are greatly responsible for the protection of miscreants.
Now their condition, under a stronger government and some foreign influence, has slightly ameliorated, but is not yet entirely secure against the cruelty, fanaticism, and injustice of the Mullahs and officials in the place.
Then we see the two domes of the mosque and theological college, the Madrassah Shah, where young future Mullahs are educated.
Innumerable Mullahs are found here who are very conservative, and who seem to resent the presence of European visitors in the city.
Moreover the influence of Mullahs is used to oppose reform and improvement, so that altogether the economic development of production, distribution and circulation of capital is bound to be hampered to no mean extent.
The Mullahs saw an excellent opportunity to undo in a few days the work of Europeans of several scores of years.
The Armenian Christians of Julfa are enjoying comparative safety at present, but until quite recently were much persecuted by the Mahommedans, the Mullahs being particularly bitter against them.
Naturally the Mullahs look askance upon these Government schools, in which foreign methods are adopted.
There were a number of Mullahs in their long black robes, white or green sashes, and large turbans, sitting round the room in a semicircle, and in the centre sat the high Mullah with the young prince by his side.
When in the company of high Mullahs evil characters are also inviolable.
The Mullahs are said to have much power over the population, and, in fact, we find in Kashan no less than 18 mosques with five times that number of shrines, counting large and small.
Although held in contempt by the Mullahs and by the Mahommedans in general, these Guebres are manly fellows, sound in body and brain, instead of lascivious, demoralized, effeminate creatures like their tyrants.
The orthodox mullahs understood the danger, and did not conceal their growing irritation against these audacious heretics.
The orthodox mullahs made fruitless efforts to obtain the condemnation of Mullah Shah, who had on his side the members of the imperial family of Delhi and the Emperor himself, all more or less imbued with mystical ideas.
Then came about four hundred mullahsand learned men, who did the same.
We came to one village where the Mullahs had been exciting the feelings of the people against us, and telling them that any food or vessel we touched was thereby defiled.
One of the most influential Mullahs on the British side of the Afghan border is the Mullah Karbogha, so called from the village which forms his Canterbury.
In the year 1879 the tribe of the Wazirs had been incited by their Mullahs to rise, and they came down suddenly with their lashkar on the little frontier town of Tank.
After a few hours' interval, wherein we were left to rest ourselves, the Mullahs returned and commenced conversation somewhat more affably.
The more fanatical of theseMullahs do not hesitate to incite their pupils to acts of religious fanaticism, or ghaza, as it is called.
God frowned on men lying with men, the mullahs said, but everyone knew that men, especially young men far from women, often took comfort in one another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mullahs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
