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THE BAYAZI. 



When betrayed into argument they quarrel about 

 their belief — a sign of weakness ; the calmly and 

 thoroughly convinced, for instance an honest 

 Scotch country minister, only smiles with pity 

 upon the man who dares to differ from him. The 

 studied simplicity and literalness of the sect and 

 its fierce intolerance, combined with its crass semi- 

 barbarism and isolation from the great family of 

 nations, have favoured the progress of Wahhabi 

 puritanism, and accordingly many Bayazi have 

 ranged themselves under the uncompromising 

 banner of puritanical 6 Unitarianism 5 — literalism 

 and Koranolatry. 



Of old the Kharijis were the flowers of the 

 Islamitic garden; and history will ever dwell 

 upon the literary glories of Seville and Cordova. 

 It was this heresy that produced the AlMmat 

 (doctissimus) El Grhazali, and the celebrated 

 Persian grammarian and poet, the Imam Abii'l 

 Kasim Mohammed bin Omar, El Zamakhshari. 

 His wife attacked his vile belief in man's Eree-will 

 with an argumentum ad hominem more demon- 

 strative than purely logical. It caused him, 

 however, to recant the error and to express his 

 penitence in that glorious ode beginning — 



JLJ! ^1 JJ Uto, J 



