Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...ears and sense; To-day be ye not silent in saying as to who is in the right. For man to speak the truth is a part of one's faith; Falsehood destroys the Muhammadan's faith. In Ahmadnagar there has arrived a respectable man! From head to foot he is understanding, and altogether sagacity! He makes objections to every one's poetry, And regards his own Bayaz as better than the Dewan of Jami. His hignness Sauda,1T who is my tutor, Even his poetry he criticises. He went somewhere, and heard his couplet, In which he shows the connection of deen with Sheikhs and BrahBecoming proud of his poetical powers, he says, Mirza Fidwi was a poet, who travelled to Persia, and regarded his own works as superior to those of the best Persian Poets, even Moulvie Jami and Sheikh Ali Hazeen, and, on account of his self-conceit, became a butt for ridicule to the Poets then living, more particularly Sauda. He was so renowned, that there are no relics of his works, except the mention made of them by Sauda! + Lauh is the tablet, on which the Kuran, and all that was ever to happen in the world, including the fate of mankind for good and bad, was written by God's foreknowledge. The decrees written on it are unchangeable, and it is supposed by Muhammadana to have been created for Muhammad, as the Hadees-i-K.udsi, addressing him in the name of Almighty God, declares; "Lau laka lama khalaktul aflaka. If I had not created you, I would not have created the world." The world here meaning not only the earth, but all the decrees of fate regarding mankind. The poet has first mentioned the tablet and pen, as he is going to write about poetry, and these are the implements required for doing so; it is customary with Oriental poets to first write about the implements, ...