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have come from Malacca in quest of such an obvious answer and 
suggested giving in private a deeper esoteric meaning communic- 
able, like all Sufi mysteries, only to the elect. The pundit took the 
hint and won the prize offered by Malacca. His esoteric solution 
is not recorded but al-Jili has given apposite Sufi answers :—“ The 
powers of endurance of the sufferers in hell continues to grow— 
God never takes back his gifts and these powers come from God— 
until there appears in them a Divine power which extinguishes the 
fire, because no one is doomed to misery after the Divine attributes 
become manifest in him,” or again “ You may say, if you like, that 
Hell-fire remains as it was, but that the torment of the damned is 
changed to pleasure.” (Nicholson, OVO, Chih INO. WO") 
There is a record of one flagrant example of heterodox panthe- 
ism from Perak 30 years ago. Tts exponent was sentenced to gaol. 
The creed he taught found God in man: “ There is no God but God. 
Tam God.” (La ilaha illallah! Aku Allah! Allah ia aku! Allahu 
aku! Allah ta‘ala itu tiada mélainkan diri int Allah.) The creed, 
alms, the pilgrimage, the turban, the sixteen pillars of a mosque, 
the steps of its pulpit, the holding of a staff by the preacher, the 
kissing of the Black Stone at Mecca were all ascribed to disgusting 
sexual analogies. Not 44 but 40 members are required for the con- 
gregation of a mosque because man and woman together have 40 
fingers and toes. Hell is anger and heaven sexual love. The 
Angel of Death is a man’s eyes; the seven furnaces of Hell his 
knees; the bridge across the Fire his back-bone. One’s right eye 
is Kiramun and one’s left Katibin. And so on, a rigmarole of 
nonsense and an obscene travesty at an immeasurable distance of 
the Divine Love celebrated by the mystics of Persia. 
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The Malay Charm. 
“ Fasal pada ményatakan ‘ilmu kota tauhid yang di-amalkan 
oleh Tuan Maklab Setam (— LS) . Dan barang siapa héndak 
méngamalkan dia, maka di-bacha fatihah dahulu, di-hadiahkan 
kapada yang émpunya dia. 
Maka di-mulai kapada malam Jumaat hingga sampai kapada 
malam Jumaat pula; maka di-bacha-nya émpat kali pada sa-malam 
sérta di-nadzarkan hati kita bérsunggoh-sunggoh kita méngésakan 
kapada Allah sérta di-shuhudkan masok ka dalam fuad kita, Sa- 
hingga pénoh maujud di-dalam diri kita pun di-‘itikadkan-lah: 
‘Aku ghaib di-dalam dzat mutlak dan itlak, maka fana-lah diri 
kita sa-kali mélainkan diri mutlak dan itlak itu jua. 
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R. A. Soc., No. 86 1922. 
