• . ■ ©N THE EOSHENIAH SECT 



for science J and accomplish ments,-«." Paradise is for the servants of Goo, 

 though they be' negro (Habeshi) slaves; and hell-ire is for sinners, 

 though ^a^jya^s of Koreish extraction,"— He saw Ood manifest, accord™ 

 jR'g tothe text,'' «^ Peradventure you may see your Ood made manifest'/* 

 and' Ba'yeeid was ordered to'^pironounc© the sentence.— »«< I haveseeu- 

 thee, being with thee ; I have k^iown the«. being with thee."-^And th©; 

 jtsst one said to him, ^« the evil of this worM is light in eompanson of 

 the future \ search diligently for what is good, and search not after what 

 Is -bad/' And^'the lord ■announced' to-'hini,' «<:lhave'ordaine'd as duties; 

 exterior and interior devotion r"l have rendered exterior worship a duty, as 

 a, means of acquiring mdrifatymdXmm knowledge ; and interior worship, 

 an ete-rnal duty /'-^BA'YE^b- was perplexed, «« If I offer prayer or 

 ^<imi.t;/' said he,- ^^ I am an Idolater, and if I do not offer It, I am an 

 infidel," Besides the prophet says, " the performing of namdz is idolatrys 

 aod the neglect of it is infidelity/' Then the divine order arrived, «« per« 

 fQrmthe^wmis;of the^?26/^ or prophets/^ He asked, what wama^that -was. ^ 

 God almighty declared, ^' tliQ praise' of the all^wo'rshipful."- After this,: 

 he adopted that narndz, as it is said,— <« The worship ■ of those who ar@- 

 united to the divine unity, is like the worship: of a worshipper, before 

 Hien ; but before Cod, like the object df; worship/'^-^fiA'TEzi'D employed 

 himself much in the practice of secret devotion* eonjcerning which; the:: 

 prophet has said, '« the best remembrance of Go© j is secret "remembrance ? 

 .and the best food, is that which Is suflicient;" : And again,.'* remember ^ 

 your^oD, morning and evening, and be not one of the negligent," His 

 adherents were informed^ in a dream, and Ba'yezId himself v/a§ warned, 

 by a voice, that they should catl him Miya'n Roshen I and he obtained ' 

 eternal life; as God has said, ^^ Say notof htm-whb^is slainin the way of ■ 

 tkeLoKD, that he is dead, but tte he is alive. -But you cannot distjji- 



