﻿342 ox THE ORIGIN AND PECULIAR TENETS, &C. 



^lanv of them are Shidhs, and adherents of the holy 

 familv. At present, among the chiefs of the Shidhs, 

 is Jllirza Sha'dma'n, with whom the faithful are 

 ■well pleased, and of whose incursions the * Kharejis 

 of CahuL and Ghaznhi bitterly complain. 



*• The Baloch of Sind\ many of these are devoted 

 Shidhs. They call themselves, and are called by all 



the faithful, Ali"s friends. Sayyad Ra'ju' of Boh- 

 hard exerted himself in the guidance of this tribe; 

 his descendants remain among them, and are occu- 

 pied with the concerns of the sect." 



* The word is here used as a term of reproach ; for its origin, as 

 the appellation of a sect, see D'Herbelot"s Bibliotheque Qr'untale, 



