420. ■ ON THE ROSHENIAH SECT 



Jeha'n Shah, and was slain at the battle of Dawletabad. CiSRiMDA'D, the 

 son of Jela'l-e D-D IN, surrendered up the whole set of the Jeldliansyt6 



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.MuH'AMMED Yaku'b Cas'mirt, the agent of Said Khan of Tarakhan. 

 Jle was put to death in 1048^ and Allah-da'd Kha'n, the son of Jela'l« 

 ED-DiN, having received the title of Rashid Kha'ni, was appointed to a 

 command of four thousand, in the Dakhm,&nd died in 1057." — Thus far 

 the Dabist'an. 



IT has been stated, that the original perverter of Ba'yezid, was Mu'lla 

 Su'lima-n, the Malhed. The term Malhed, is the common epithet, by 

 which Moslem writers denominate the heterodox seR of Ismdiliyah; 

 the se6t of Ba'yezid may therefore be conje6lured to be a branch of the 

 Jsmaitiyah heresy. A short review of the peculiar do6lrines of Ba'yezid, 

 will, I apprehend, show that this opinion is well founded. The obnoxious 

 principles, which he is charged, b^ Akhu'n Derwe'zeh, with maintaining, 

 are chiefly the folio wlng^ -. ^ - . , . 



1. God is all in ail, and all existing abgects.are only fornisrfof deity. 



^ rt'^t g^eat Tnatiifestatiohs of divinity are Firs, or religious teachers, who are 

 .juaforms of divinity/ or toither the d^iiy Mraself In the spirit of this opinioji, 

 i Ba'tezid said to his followers, '' I ^sp your P/r, and your God." 



S. The sole test of right and wrong is^ obedience to the Pir> who is the repre- 

 §eq||,tive of divinity, or rather deity itself; and therefore, right and wrong are 



- r not attributes of a Pir.; and the greatest of all sins, is disobedience to a Pir, 

 which is disobedience to the deity himself, 



4. Those who will not receive the precepts of a P/r, are fli thp situation of 

 brutes, which it is in some cases, meritorious, and in all, lawful to kill ; or in 

 that of dead men, whose property naturally devolves to the living, and may 

 therefore be legally plundered, at pleasure, by all true believers. 



