622 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1907.] 



"Si 



many passages of the Qui>an commencing witli e)l is the fol 



lowing : — 



0- o ^ ** ^ X ' c^ O -^o**" ^ O^^O^ • ^^ O^ ^^ ^x-xO-« J^ 



^ ^ 





?zf 



" Verily the chiefs are deliberating to kill them ; so depart, 

 I give thee sage ndvice."— Qur., XXVfllj 19. 



Al-jMutanahbi replied to the Sultan, adding an < 



wordcil of the terminating words of the letter, and the secretary on 



reading the reply guessed that the reference was to the passage 

 beginning 



% 



'' Verily we will never enter it so Iotir- as thev are there." 



Qnr., V, 27. ^ ' 



For the Khntt-i jS/io/arf or Tree-writing, and for several other 

 adaptations of the Ahjud system to secret signalling — methods used 

 by Dervishes— viie Browne's " A Year Amongst the Persians." 



v. 



