MUD RI, usually spelled MooDKEE, a small t. of n.w. Hindustan, 28 m. s.e. of the Sutlej, and 70 m. s.c. of the city of Lahore, on the Ravi. It has a pop. of about 6,000. Here the first battle in the Sikh war of 1845-16 was fought (Dee. 18, 1845), when the British under sir Hugh Gough repulsed the Sikhs, and sir Robert Henry Sale, "Fighting Bob," was killed.
the Arabic name of the Mohammedan official attached to a mosque, whose duty it is to announce the different times of prayer. Ilis chant (adan) consists of these words. repeated at intervals: " Allah is most great. I testify that there is no God but Adah. I testify that Mohammed is the apostle of Allah. Conic to prayer., Come to security." ["Prayer is better than sleep" is added in the morning, at the subh Or fegr. See MOHAMMEDANISM.] is most great. There is no deity but Allots!" Besides.these regular calls, two more are chanted during the night for those pious per sons who wish to perform special nightly devotions. The first (ula) continues, after the usual adan, in this manner: "There is no deity but Allah! He bath no companion—to him belongeth the dominion—to him belongeth praise. He giveth life, and caused]
death. And he is living, and shall never In Isis band is blessing, and he is almighty. " etc. The second of these night-calls ((died) takes place an hour before day break, and begins as follows: " I extol the perfection of Allah, the existing for ever and ever: the perfection of Allah. the desired, the existing, the single, the supreme," etc. The office of a muaddin is generally entrusted to blind men only, lest they might, from their elevation, have too free a view over the surrounding terraces and harems. The harmonious and sonorous voices of the singers, together with the simplicity :nut solem nity of the melody, make a strikingly poetical impression upon the mind of the hearer in daytime; much more, however, is this the case whenever the sacred chant resounds front the height of the mosque through the moonlit stillness of an eastern night.