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death; and if you find none, then let him be preserved," Miya'n BaVezid 

 said, " that heart which you mention, you will equally find, if you kill a 

 calf, or a kid, or a dog ; but that lump of flesh is not the heart." The 

 Arabian prophet declares, " the heart of the faithful is more elevated 

 than the empyreal vault, (arsh) and more spacious than the region of 

 , the throne of God, (kurs')" and again. " Hearts testify of hearts/" 



Moula'na Zec aria said to him, " you say that you are acquainted with 

 ; the secrets of the tomb ; let us go with you to a sepulchral ground, and 

 converse with the dead." Miya'n Ba'yezid said, " if you listened 

 ' to the voice of the dead, I should not term you an infidel, (gabar)" 



The author of this work observed to a Miydn, of the Roshemah sect, 

 that if instead of this answer, the Miydn had replied to him, •♦ your voice, 

 ^hich I hear, is that of a dead person, proceeding from the tomb of the 

 corporeal embers," it had been better. He was pleased, and immediately 

 wrote down on the margin of the Halndmehj that this also was the reply 

 of Bayezid. Thus what the Mdbed sings, happened tome. 



In a friendly way, I have viewed, and I have given^ 

 A mark unmarked, to the searchers of the wajo 



Then the learned men asked Miya'n Ba'yezid, " By what word or 

 deed of yours, shall we be convinced concerning you.'*" Ba'yezid an- 

 swered, " Find out a scholar, who has studied devotion, with the best, and 

 ablest of you, and let him attend me, and perform devotional exer- 

 cises according to my rules, and if he receive improvement, then 

 believe in me." A person named Malec Mirza said, *' Ba'yezid, beware 

 of arrogant speech, and assert not that men have swerved into error : 

 whoever chooses, let him follow your path, and whoever does not choose, 

 let him let it alone." Miya'n Roshen Ba'yezid said, " I will propose to 



