Section I.――Of the appearance of the individual Vahed, and an
account of his person 12
Section II.――An account of some tenets of Vahed 14
Section III.――Upon some of the sayings of Vahed 16
Section IV.――On certain customs, forms of speech, and
traditions of this sect 18
CHAPTER IX.
Of the religion of the Roshenian.
Section I.――Of the appearance of the lord Míyán Báyezid 26
Section II.――An account of the history of the lord Míyán
Roshen Báyazid 38
Section III.――Upon the transactions of the sons of the lord
Míyán Báyazid 42
CHAPTER X.
Of the religion of the Ilahiah.
Section I.――On the appearance of the Khalifet of the All-Just 49
Section II.――On the dispute of the people of different
religions 50
Section III.――Upon the virtues of the stars, according to
reason, manifestation, revelation, and
tradition 105
Section IV.――Upon the sayings of his Majesty (Akbar), dwelling
in the seventh heaven 121
CHAPTER XI.
Of the religion of the Wise (Philosophers).
Section I.――Of the religion of the philosophers, and of some
branches of their questions 139
An account of the pages of human actions and
their recorders, and of the descent of angels
and demons to the good and the wicked 153
An account of mountains and seas, and of what
occurs upon the earth at the last judgment 155
Account of the tree Tuba, which is in heaven,
and the tree Zakum, which is in hell 158
Section II.――Of the reputation and the truth of the prophetic
dignity 172
Upon the meaning of revelation and inspiration 175
Upon the interpretation of the miracles of
the prophet 177
Section III.――Of the successors of these philosophers, and
the chief followers of this creed 204
CHAPTER XII.
Of the religion of the Sufiahs.
Section I.――Of some of their tenets 220
Section II.――Of the prophetic office, and explanation of the
public declarations conformable to the
revelation of inspired persons 241
Section III.――Of some of the Saints among the moderns, and of
the Sufis whom the author of the work has
known 284
* * * * *
EPILOGUE
Of Moulavi Nazer Ushruf, editor of the Persian text of the
Dabistán, printed in Calcutta 315
Index 321
THE END.
ERRATA.
Volume I.
page
41, note 1, line 8, _instead of_ Venus _read_ Mercury.
192, l. 2 Khusran _r._ Khusro.
214, n. 1, l. 1 Runzat _r._ Rouzat.
265, n. 1, l. 7 Jesht _r._ Yesht.
_ibidem_, l. 10 Kechvars _r._ Kishvars.
271, l. 19 Ashtawazand _r._ Asta wa zand.
306, n. 3, l. 1 p. 236 _r._ 246.
Volume II.
page
27, l. 10 Mudgha _r._ Mugdha.
28, l. 16 Naryaan _r._ Narayana.
94, n. 3, l. 8 तबोवस्था _r._ तर्बावस्था.
96, l. 2 Inani _r._ Jnani.
119, n. 1, l. 1 Parnsha _r._ Purusha.
124, l. 12 abhasayoga _r._ abhyásayoga.
127, n. 1, l. 1 अलाक _r._ अलोक.
173, note 2, referring to Abu Ali’s work, ought to be note 3, and
n. 3, referring to Jafer Kakuyah, ought to be n. 2.
184, l. 17 tutasi _r._ tulasi.
204, n. 4, l. 1 इन्दियं _r._ इनद्रियं.
215, l. 25 is transposed and should be l. 24.
217, n. 2, last line प्रष्ट _r._ अष्ट.
220, l. 11 Ihr _r._ Iter.
268, l. 11 trut _r._ truth.
289, n. l. 2 Sigar _r._ Siyar.
Volume III.
page
42, l. 8 after Omar Shaikh, a comma.
47, l. 16 Athedad _r._ Alahdad.
96, n. l. 2 1 _r._ 2.
163, l. 4 Run fa yakun, _r._ Kunfaya-Kun.
211, l. 25 Kamzan _r._ Kamran.
238, l. 10 _at the word_ things――
_reference to note 1_.
l. 11 _instead of reference 1 read 2._
l. 14 2 ―― 3.
l. 17 3 ―― 4.
note l. 1 _left blank, ought to be_
See pp. 223, 230, 233.
l. 2 _instead of 1 read 2._
l. 3 2 ―― 3.
l. 4 3 ―― 4.
_ibid._ مطلقه _r._ مطلق
265 note l. 9 Futuhat _r._ Favatah.
l. 10 334 _r._ 234.
281 l. 8 Fatuhal _r._ Favátah.
Transcriber Note:
This book was written in a period when many words had not become
standardized in their spelling. Words and names have multiple spelling
variations, inconsistent hyphenation and inconsistent accent marks.
Misspelled words in English, German, Greek, Persian and Sanskrit were
left unchanged. Accent marks for transliterations of Persian and
Sanskrit were standardized with accents placed above vowels and
the letter s, and after the letter t; a high comma precedes aspirated
consonant, h. Words in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like
this_. Superscripts are within braces, preceded by a carat, e. g.
1^{er}.
Duplicate words were removed. Obvious printing errors, such as upside
down, backwards, or missing letters, and letters in the wrong order,
were corrected. Spaces were added or removed between words, as
appropriate. Quotation marks and parentheses were adjusted to standard
usage. Missing stops were added to abbreviations and ends of
sentences. Missing commas were added between items in lists. Commas
were changed to stops at ends of sentences. Asterisks were used to
indicate thought breaks.
Footnotes were numbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the
section in which they occurred. Anchor for Footnote [91] is missing in
the original; it was added where it likely belonged. There are two
anchors to Footnote [183].
Footnote [220] references an internal footnote on pages 408-409 that
does not exist. It may refer to footnote [222], which is on pages
259-260.
On page 288 of the text, two lines were printed in reverse order. “…
because there is lute freedom with those only who are united with
bondage with those who tend towards God, and abso- him,…” was changed
to: “…because there is bondage with those who tend towards God, and
absolute freedom with those only who are united with him,…”
Comments and changes pertaining to the Index:
Abd ’ul Khader, … Zafir Khan, II changed to Zafir Khan, III.
Aid Kurban, page 264 should be page 261.
Ali, son of Abu Taleb, entries for “Muhammed’s eulogy of Ali,
456 n. 1." and his poems and sayings, ibid.” volume number changed
from III to II.
Garcin de Tassy, page 259 should be page 250.
Kerb, proximity, should be note 3, not note 1.
Tashbiáh, “assimilators,” volume number changed from III to II.
Krita yugam, volume number changed from III to II.
Sheheristâni, the surname of Al Fath Muhammed Ben Abdalkerim,...
date of his death ... does not appear to be a correct page or
footnote reference.