God is not onely a bare permiſsiue agent in an euill worke, but a powerfull effectour of the ſame[…]

Young Muslims are essentially seen as 'ethnically challenged' and this is put at the core of their experience of disadvantaged positions. Prejudice and discrimination present authentically serious difficulties […]

The corrections of the scholars consist of penitences and punitions; the former are, keeping a boy standing, or on his knees, or in an ignominious place; the latter are pensums (i. e. impositions), or, rarely, the use of a leather thong on the hand.

This sense was expressed in a story about a friend who had been laid off (riffed) in a particularly uncaring manner.