242 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
He replied: ‘ Kishan, and these seven rupees are for your 
entertainment as you have come to our land.’ He replied: 
‘fam a Muhammadan. and Muhammad, the Chosen, is our 
Prophet, whose favour is enough to fulfil our wants.’ Kisha 
was in tears and said: ‘ We have heard of the Prophet of the 
last age. of his sincerity, and of his followers. We found more 
than that.’”’ 
The above are the views of one of the foremost Muslim 
scholars of India who combined in his person at once the 
esoteric and exoteric doctrine of Islam. They are lucid, 
straightforward and logical. A writer, thinker, and a great 
Sufi he is also a poet of great eminence, and was one of he 
few who first composed in the Urdu language as she was spoken 
at Dihli. His opinion about the Hindu religion and pantheism 
is supported by eminent Shaykh Ahmad-i-Faruqi, better 
known as Mujaddad-i-’ Alf-i-Thani of Sarhand (971-1034 H.= 
1563-1624 A.D.). In his letter No. 259, Volume I, the Shaykh 
God’s attributes, His holiness, and His purity, are to be met 
with, in the writings of the Indian polytheists, they are 
deduced from those prophetical lights. 
t is said, I believe, in Mir Khond’s “ Raudatu’s-Safa e 
that the tomb of prophet $A7th (Seth) is in Oudh. 
will try to convey the urport in English of the Foreword 
“ 
of Dara Shikch’s Perdian « Sirr-i-Akbar” or the translation of 
disguised, makes it difficult.” I use the same rare MS. ran: 
According to Robert Orme’s “ Historical Fragments (London, 
1805), there is a MS. translation of the book in English, in the 
ane Museum, by Mr. N. B. Halhead. Orme has copied @ 
ew opening passages of the translation. 

__| The Asiatic Society’s MS. E 103 appears to be incomplete. There 
is another copy in the Asiatic Society’s Government of India Second Col- 
eetion No, 154, which is more complete, and written very beautifully. 
