112 E. D. Maclagan—Jesuit Missions to the Emperor Akbar. [N 0. i 
being conformable to reason, fol. 73b. 3. Divinity of Jesus Christ our 
Lord: fol. 208a (the end of this book and the beginning of the next are 
missing). 4, Commandments of the Gospel and their contrast with those 
of Muhammad; fol. 322a. The strength imparted by the Christian faith 
and its superiority to other religions; fol. 4370.’ Of the style of this book 
Dr. Lee writes! ‘It is very evident that the writer was a man of consider- 
abie ability and energy, and that he has spared no pains to recommend his 
religion to the Mahommedan or heathen reader: but that he has trusted 
much more to his own ingenuity, than to the plain and unsophisticated 
declarations of the Holy Scriptures. His style is, upon the whole correct, 
though occasionally interspersed with Huropeanisms, but it never makes the 
most distant approach to what may be termed elegance.’ 
An abridgement of the above was subsequently brought out by Xavier 
under the title ‘ Muntakhab-i-Aina-i-Haqq-numa@ and a copy of this abridg- 
ment is among the British Museum Manuscripts (Add. 23584). ‘In a long 
preface addressed to Jahangir,’ says Dr. Rieu, ‘the author... mentions his 
previous work entitled Aina-i-Haqgq-numa to which he had devoted so many 
years, and says that finding the Emperor’s time taken up by the cases of 
Government, he extracted its substance for his use, and condensed it in the 
' present “selection.” This work, which is not, like the former, written in the 
form of a dialogue, contains the following four Chapters (Fasl): 1. Know- 
ledge of the nature of God; fol. 7b. 2. On Jesus our Lord; fol. 19a. 3. 
Commandments of the Gospel; fol. 32b. 4. Divine Assistance; fol. 43a.’ 
This work found its way to Persia and there called forth the reply: 
Misgqal-i-Safa dar tahliyah-t-Atna-i-Haqq-numa or ‘The Clean Polisher 
for the brightening of the Tr uth-Reflecting Mirror:’ the author of which 
Sayyid Ahmad B. Zain-ul-‘Abidin, says that in A. H. 1032 (A. D. 1622-3) he 
had been shown by two Christian priests, Padre Juan and Padre Brio, a 
copy of the Aina-i-Haqq-numa? written by the great Christian divine known 
as Padre Mimilad (?). This again called forth two rejoinders: one by Father 
Bonav. Malvalia in 1628,° and the other by a Franciscan, Philip Guadagnoli.4 
This latter was published at Rome in 1631 under the title: ‘Apologia pro 
Christiana religione quea R. P. Philippo Gadagnolo respondetur ad objec- 
tiones Ahmad filii Zin Alabadin, Perse Aspahahensis, contentas in libro 
incripto Politor speculi., and it is reported (see de Backer. Bibl. des 
écrivains de la compagnie de Jésus, VII. 415) to have had the effect of con- 
verting the said Sayyid Ahmad. ! 
A very full account of the Aina-i-Haqg-numa will be found in Dr. Lee’s 
preface to Henry Martyn’s ‘Controversial Tracts on Christianity and 
Mahommedanism. Cambridge 1824. In the same preface will be found an 
1 Preface to H. Martyn’s Controversial Tracts p. XL. 
2 The quotations show that the book seen was the Mantakhab. Rien, Bovsien 
MSS. I. 28. 
3 Not in the Brit. Mus. 
4 See M. Thevenot Relation de divers Voyages. Discowrs sur les Mémoires de 
Thos. Rhoé, p. 12. 
