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last mentioned division, which seems to have flourished in Ferghdneh, at a 

 latter period than that of Ba'yezid. There is also considerable analogy, 

 between the character of Ha'shem, and that of Ba'yezid. Each of them 

 began with assuming the character of a prophet, and ended with claiming 

 the honours of divinity. In his prophetical character, Ha'shem assumed 

 the named of Al-Barkai, or the lightning-flasher ; Ba'yezid, in the same 

 character, assumed the title of Pir Roshen, 



In several respects, the principles and proceedings of Ba^yezid An= 

 SARI, have a manifest analogy, to those of Hasan Sa'bah', the great Zs- 

 mailiyah chief. Mohsani Fa'ni, the author of the D'abistan, in his chap- 

 ter on the Ismdiliyah sect, cites a work composedly Hasan Sa'bah', 

 in which, that celebrated character grounds his principles, on the neces- 

 sity of a perfect Pir, or unerring religious instructor;, a doctrine which 

 was also asserted by Ba'yezid. The necessity of this great princi- 

 pie, it appears that Hasan Saba'h' attempted to demonstrate logically,, 

 first against the advocates of intellect or reason ; secondly, against the 

 Sunnis; thirdly, against the Shidhs; and this he terms the doctrine of 

 the Mdlim, or spiritual guide. Hasan Saba'h' was the founder of the 

 celebrated dynasty of the Hasasinah or Assassins, in Co'histan, and may 

 be denominated, according to the phraseology of the West, the original 

 old man of the mountain, and died a. h. 508. Ali, the third, successor 

 of Hasan Saba^h', is likewise a person of mucb celebrity, among the 

 votaries of the Ismailiyah sect ; and some of his proceedings bear no> 

 small degree of analogy to those of Ba'yezid. It had long been un- 

 derstood, that the Ismd'iliyahs carried their mysticism to a great length ; 

 and it was alledgcd, that they maintained paradise to consist solely in 

 the repose of the body, from the troubles of life ; and hell to be nothing 



