1923. ] Hinduism according to Muslim Sufis. 239 
Their religious jurists (mujtahids) have deduced from 
it (Veda) six systems and have based the fundamental prin- 
ciples of their religion on them. This science is called Dharam 
Shaistar (Dharma Shastra), that is the science of religion or 
theology. They have classified different classes of human 
Species into four castes and deduced from that book, for each, 
four separate rules of conduct on which they have based their 
minor rules of conduct. This science is known as Karam 
Shaistar (Karma Shastra). This is the science of action or 
aw. As thev do not believe in the a rogation of (Divine) 
ordinances, but according to (our) judgment there must needs be 
rules of conduct agreeable to the changed disposition of men 
and space, they have divided the long duration of the world into 
four periods and named each a Jug. For men of each Jug, they 
have prescribed. from those four parts (four volumes of the 
Veda), certain rules of conduct. No reliance should be put on 
the innovation the moderner scholars have introduced. 
ll the schools (of the Hindus) unanimously believe in the 
unity of the most high God ; consider the world to be created ; 
believe in the destruction of the world ; in the reward for good 
and bad conduct, on the resurrection and accountability (of 
conduct). They are far advanced in theoretical and trans- 
the second for the acquisition of the necessities of life and 
(begetting) children ; the third for correcting the conduct, and 
raining of self: the fourth for the exercise of seclusion and 
aloofness (from wordly affairs), which is the crown of human 
perfection, and the highest emancipation, called Maha-mukii, 
1s dependent on it. The rules and regulations of their faith 
process of obliteration and affirmation (i.e. changes). 
It ought to be noted that according to the holy verse (of 
the Qur'an) : ‘ And there is not a people but a warner has gone 
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tained in the books of the Hindus. From their signs, it is 
’pperent that they had attained high and perfect position. 
The Universal Divine Mercy did not leave out, for the good 
