So far as south China is concerned there are no roads. Traveling in the Amoy district is a slow process, more often wearisome than otherwise-a peculiar wearisomeness of its own. There was living at Zaytun, amongst other eminent shaykhs, Burhan ad-Din of Kazarun, who has a hermitage outside the town, and it is to him that the merchants pay the sums they vow to Shaykh Abu Ishaq of Kazarun.” They say “He has come from the land of Islam,” and they make him the recipient of the tithes on their properties, so that he becomes as rich as themselves. These merchants, living as they do in a land of infidels, are overjoyed when a Muslim comes to them. He knew The Koran by heart and used to recite it constantly. Amongst the latter was Sharaf ad-Din of Tabriz, one of the merchants from whom I had borrowed at the time of my arrival in India, and the one who had treated me most fairly. I received visits from the qadi of the Muslims, the shaykh al-Islam, and the principal merchants. He greeted me, and introduced me to the controller of the douane and saw that I was given good apartments (there). “The Muslims live in a town apart from the others…On the day that I reached Zaytun I saw there the amir who had come to India as an envoy with the present (to the sultan), and who afterward traveled with our party and was shipwrecked on the junk.
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