Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 18.3.6

18.3.6

"Should you ask me what I have been doing in this world, I would answer, "I have been attending to the language of love, and know nothing else: "Nothing else, but that I have just heard here the inviting voice of my Love. "Fatigued from his journey, and sensible of the pains it has cost him, "Hezin comes to repose his weary head on this pillow of tranquillity." May God's mercy be upon him! The second of those eminent personages, that came from foreign parts, is His Highness Sheh-mahmed-hassen, who is equal to the second Protomartyr, Sheh-zin-eddin-aaly. To mention his illustrious pedigree, would prove as superfluous a task as it would be to point out the sun, a new thing, in the middle of a flaming day. He had not his equal in the knowledge of the Arabic language, in jurisprudence, and in the sense of the Coran, and of its commentaries. As to the metaphysical and profane sciences, he was little versed in them, nor did they attract much of his regard; but he was not a stranger to them neither. His inclination turned him towards theology, and sacred knowledge, expressing little inclination towards profane sciences; but he had no aversion to them, nor did he forbid them to his disciple; for he used to say that the ancient masters were partaged in their opinions, on that subject, and I acknowledge, would he add, my insufficiency in those two articles, and "at a loss how to determine between the two parties, betwixt their right or wrong opinions. God only knows which is best."