Crossword-Solution: ARAF 4 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

With the brief gladness of the Palms, that tower and sway o’er seething plain, Fraught with the thoughts of rustling shade, and welling spring, and rushing rain; With the short solace of the ridge, by gentle zephyrs played upon, Whose breezy head and bosky side front seas of cooly celadon;— ’Tis theirs to pass with joy and hope, whose souls shall ever thrill and fill Dreams of the Birthplace and the Tomb, visions of Allah’s Holy Hill.* * Arafât, near Mecca.

The “wold-where-none-save-He (Allah)-can-dwell” is a great and terrible wilderness (_Dasht-i-lâ-siwâ Hu_); and Allah’s Holy Hill is Arafât, near Mecca, which the Caravan reaches after passing through Medina.

Yet the actual number of the Hßjis who stand upon Jebel æArafßt, instead of diminishing, has greatly increased.

Each good deed's a mist, that wide, golden borders gets; And for him the bridge, each side, shines with parapets." Between hell and paradise is an impassable wall, al Araf, separating the tormented from the happy, and covered with those souls whose good works exactly counterpoise their evil works, and who are, consequently, fitted for neither place.

The principal ceremonies of the pilgrimage are completed on the 9th of the month of Zu-l-Ḥejjeh: on the following day, which is the first of the Great Festival, on the return from 'Arafát to Mekkeh, the pilgrims who are able to do so perform a sacrifice, and every other Muslim who can is required to do the same: part of the meat of the victim he should eat, and the rest he should give to the poor.