The Commentary of Father Monserrate 2.3.6

2.3.6

There is also a temple built like a Christian Church. Beneath, one on each side of the building, are two shrines with arched roofs, in which altars might be placed. Above these are two rooms, also with arched roofs, opening into each other and thus forming a passage towards the sanctuary of the High Altar. Probably it will appear to many an incredible traveller's tale when I declare that outside the walls of the city is a graveyard six miles long. This may sound an exaggeration; but no one who knows with what magnificence and costliness the Musalmans are wont to build tombs will wonder at it. For, believing as they do that those whose life here is ended can only be admitted amongst the saints of Heaven through the name of Muhammad, they therefore honour their dead with elaborately built tombs, which, as they esteem, are worthy of those who are now holy saints in Heaven. Indeed in this respect — namely their belief that fitting honours should be paid to heavenly saints and seemly tombs made for the dead — these Musalmans are wiser and better than certain abandoned creatures of our own age.