Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 18.5.1

18.5.1

Verse : " After two such examples, choose, if thou canst, thine own pattern. Thanks are due to the Almighty God, that the learned man is still living to this day, (it being the month of Shaaban of the year 1194) and is spending his time in collating books, confronting authorities, explaining the Scriptures, reading lectures upon sciences, and shewing the influence of his learning and virtues over the whole city of Mbrshbd-abad. He is assiduously attended by Hassen-Reza-qhan and his children, by Mahmed-hossein-qhan, by Doctor-haddy-qhan's son, and by numbers of the most distinguished persons of the city, who all resort thither to reap the benefit of his vivifying breath. May God continue to stretch the shade of that illustrious Seyd's person over the heads of his servants and adorers! Amen. The second of those two illustrious men, which remain to us from the former times, is the Prince of those that fear God, and are attached to the rights of his Pontiff, the Cream of the Learned in the true Science, Hadji-bedi-eddin (Whom God may long conserve at the head of the Mussulmanism, that we may long refresh our thirst at the cooling waters of his virtues and learning!). He was born in the district Sarun, about Azim-abad, and is renowned amongst those pious men, who fearing God, live retired; but with honour and decency. After having acquired a knowledge of the sciences, he resolved to spend his days in the service of his God, and in subduing his flesh.