Iḵẖwanu-ṣ-safā, or Brothers of purity / translated from the Hindūstānī of Ikrām 'Alī, by John Platts; carried through tne press by Edward B. Eastwick.

  • Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Iḵẖwanu-ṣ-safā, or Brothers of purity / translated from the Hindūstānī of Ikrām 'Alī, by John Platts; carried through tne press by Edward B. Eastwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for His mercies ? and what virtue in my crazy reed to bring me successful through such an attempt ? Verses. How then can I His praises due express When Prophets’ tongues to sing the same are weak ? The band of holy sages here confess— “ We know Thee not,”—His nature though they seek. Whence then may I, mere creature,1 find access To knowledge fit His glorious name to speak ? To mortal man is power given to bless In compass full a nature so unique ? Blessings unlimited are the due of the Prince of the Apostles, the last of the prophets, Mohammad Mustafa, who extricated those who had gone astray, from the waste of error, and guided them into the right path. Through him it was that we obtained, according to the sacred text,—“Ye are the best of peoples,” pre-eminence over all other nations. Verses. Mohammad, of created things the lord; The leader he of man and Jinn; His, at the Grand Assize, the saving word That lieav’nly mercy seeks for sin. 1 Mtmkin = Imkdmi-l-wujud, is the exact opposite of Wujibu-l-xvujiid, and signifies that of which the existence is contingent. It is equivalent to malchluk.