FOOTNOTES:

[84] Hujwírí, author of the oldest Persian treatise on Súfism, was a

native of Ghazna in Afghanistan. He died at Lahore about A.D. 1072.

Pír-i Sanjar is the renowned saint, Mu`ínuddín, head of the Chishtí

order of dervishes, who died in A.D. 1235 at Ajmír.

[85] These lines correct the Súfí doctrine that by means of passing

away from individuality the mystic attains to everlasting life in God.

[86] _I.e._ allegorically. This verse occurs in the _Masnaví_.

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