﻿338 ON THE ORIGIN AND PECULIAR TENETS 



which is the same with himself; and hence they 



call the sun Ali'Ullah. This sect does not ad- 

 mit the authenticity of the Koran, as it is now ex- 

 tant : some pretending, that it is a forgery of 



Abu beck's, Omar's and Othma'n's; others con- 

 demning it, simply because it was edited by the last 

 mentioned Khalit. The members of this sect appear 

 to vary in regard to some points of doctrine; but 

 the leading and universal teiiet of this sect is, that, 

 in every age of the world, GOD is manifested in the 

 persons of prophets and of saints ; for instance, he 



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•was Adam, and afterwards Ahmed andALi': and in 

 like manner these sectaries believe in the transmi- 

 gration of GOD into the persons of the Imams, 

 Some of them atiirin, that the manifestation of the 



divine being, in this age of the world, was An' 

 Ullah ; and aJ'ter him, his glorious posterity : and 

 they consider AIu hammed as a prophet sent by 



Ali' Ullah. Wlien GOD, say they, perceived 

 Muhammed's insufficiency, he himself assumed the 

 human form for the purpose of assisting the 

 prophet*." 



It does not appear from any satisfactory informa- 

 tion, that the Bohrahs agree with either of these 



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sects, in deifying Ali'. or in contesting the legal 

 succession of the six last Imams. On the contrary, 

 the tribe is acknowledged to consist of orthodox 

 Sa/niis, and of true Skidhs ; but mostly of the last 

 mentioned sect. These and other known circum- 

 stances coiroborate the following account of that 

 tribe as given by Nurullah of JShusto', m the 

 work before mentioned. 



" The Bolirahs are a tribe of the faithful, which 

 is settled cldefly at Ahmcdabad and its environs. 

 Their salvation in the bosom of religion took place 



about 

 * Sec ilie Dabiitdri, fro.ii which this account is abstrafted. 



