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C. E. Yate —Notes on the City °f Hirdt. 
No. 5. 
[No. 2, 
"Welcome to tlie shrine, on the ground of which bows down many a 
head ! Hail to the threshold, the dust of which is kissed by many lips ! 
This is a threshold, by the dust of which kings of the world hold the 
crown of honour and the throne of dignity. 
How can the sun put his face on this exalted threshold, if the sky- 
do not double itself under his feet. 
If rain shower down from the roof of its lofty building as if from a 
cloud, grass will grow on the dome of the high sky. 
The world receives light from the sky-lights of its building; and 
of the truth of this saying both the sun and the moon are witnesses. 
He shuts the doors against all misfortunes, who takes shelter wnthin 
the compound of its threshold. 
It acquired this distinction through the favour of that pious man 
who took his seat here in the cradle of dust, the saint of Hirat, the 
chosen of the Ansar, the dome of whose threshold touched the arch 
of the sky. 
The studies of the students of colleges are his works, and the 
prayers of the disciples of Khinaqahs are his teachings. 
His tomb is a gazurgah 1 (a washing-place), wherein the cloud of 
the divine forgiveness washes white the black (sinful) records of men. 
The Mil 2 '(head-stone) at the head of his grave, overcovered 
with light, serves to apply the collyrium of wakefulness to the eye of 
the heart of the visitors. 
The lantern of his tomb is a bucket of gold in appearance, by means 
of which the Joseph 3 of the heart got rid of the confinement of the well. 
May the light of his saintliness, which has spread over the world, 
be a guide, up to the day of resurrection, to the travellers led astray 
from the right path. O Jami ! 4 this door is the Rdabali , (sanctuary) for 
the realization of overy desire ; so direct the face of supplication to it and 
submit your want. 
1 Hero tlio word ‘ gdzur-gah * is usod in its literal Rouse, ns a common nonn, 
moaning a ‘ washing-placo ’ ; bat ftt tlio samo timo it refers to the placo of that 
namo, mentioned in Note 2. 
3 Mil—ii block of stone of rollor-liko form erected perpendicularly at the 
heftd (and sometimes both lit the head and foot) of a grave to mark t he spot ; also, a 
skewer or wire used to anoint tlio eye with eollyrium. lienee a play upon tlio word. 
3 I loro is a reference to the story of Joseph, son of Jacob, who was thrown into 
a well by his onvious brothers, but an Arabian merchant , Malik, passing by the well, 
took him out by means of a bucket. 
4 Jami—poetical namo of a celebrated Persian peel, who nourished at Jam 
(name of a town). 
