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“A raindrop, from a cloud distilled,
At sea’s expanse with tremor filled,
Mused: ‘Where the main rolls, am I aught?
In ocean’s presence, sure, I’m naught.’
Itself, thus eyed with scorn profound,
In oyster’s bosom nurture found.
Time’s wheel wrought changes manifold;
Rich pearl of price the raindrop’s told.
Meek modesty its prize received;
By naught’s gate ent’ring, worth achieved.”
Kilburn Priory, London. 1880.
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FROM THE WORK ENTITLED
THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS
(MENĀQIBU ’L ‘ĀRIFĪN),
BY
SHEMSU-’d-DĪN AHMED, EL EFLĀKĪ.
THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS.4
CHAPTER I.
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Bahā’u-’d-Dīn, Veled, Sultānu-’l-‘Ulemā (The Beauty of the Religion of Islām, Son, Sultan of the Doctors of the Law).
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The king of Khurāsān,5 ‘Alā’u-’d-Dīn Muhammed, Khurrem-Shāh, uncle of Jelālu-’d-Dīn Muhammed Kh’ārezm-Shāh, and the proudest, as he was the most handsome man of his time, gave his daughter, Melika’i-Jihān (Queen of the World), as to the only man worthy of her, to Jelālu-’d-Dīn Huseyn, el Khatībī, of the race of Abū-Bekr.