^m -ON 'THE ROSHENIAH SECT 



idles. But it is not their practice to display their tenets, to any one, until! 

 .be has been initiated into their faith. They alledge that the divine attri- 

 biites and the knowledge of deity, are to be attained by true science, or 

 dm-i-S'adik : and the accounts of the prophets or Anbia, and the pre- 

 cepts of the ■Koran and Hadis they quote for the sake of misleading men, 

 and inducing them to suppose tjiat they, b.elie¥e. in .GQJ?,rthe., prophet, the 

 ■ Imams, and the Koran. 



A3DULLAH-BENI~MAIMUN-AL-KADA;H,the"f0Un'der of thlS infidel SQ&f 



was the servant of "iMAM'jAFAR'S'ADtK, and also^serve'd'IsMAiL-BENi S'adik, 



When Ismail died, 'he left a son named''Mun'AMMED, whom he likewise 

 ^attended : but when -ABUijAFARfMANsuR'DAVANAKi poisoned Ima'm Ja- 

 FAR S'adik, Abdullah /Carried off his grandson Muh'ammed to MzVr. 



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'When Mlth'ammed died, ^he' left a conciibine pregnant ; and Abdullah 

 ■having put her to death, substituted a girl of his own in her room. 

 "This girl brought forth a son, whom he instru<5ted in infidelity, pre- 

 tending that he was the son of 'Mu hammed ; and when' he grew up, he 



asserted him to be the Imam, and many of the sovereigns of Ajem acknow- 

 ledged allegiance to him. By this stratagem, many were perverted. 



3ome of this person's descendants attained the rank of sovereign in Misr^ 

 )S,ecanderiah and Maghreb; m\d_ afterwards the heresy spread far and wide. 



The first of these, who sat on the throne of the Khalifah, was Mehedi- 

 . al-Kaim BiLLAH, and the line continued to the time of Mostansir. 



Hasan Sab ah perverted a great many persons to infidelity by the di- 



re6"l;ion of Mostansir. The line of Mis'r was afterwards cut off, but 



thepartizans of Hasan S'aba'p' continue tp the pres.ent day. This sgdl 



consists of several divisions : 



1, The S'ahdhiah. They-say, that if mankind were endowed with siif^ 

 iicent understanding, no person would have to complain of another; but 



