ملخص الجهاز:
The author has been induced to take up the pen, because he feels that "no civilised people in the world is so igno• rantoflslamic history and contemptuous of Islamic religion as the Hindus; while ·their current notion of the teachings of the Arabian Prophet is extremely ill-in• formed," with the result that the aver• age educated Hindu has little knowledge of.
The Prophet said:" Sagacious is he who examines himself and works for what shall be after death; and incompetent is he who lets his soul pursue its lusts and wishes for many things from God.
We have been told by Ibn Nasir a Tradition going back to AbiY'Ahd al-Rahman as-Sulami, according to which the latter said: Abu Nasr' al-Nasrabadl, being told how some people sat with women, declaring them• selves safe 'from :temptation when they looked at them, said: So long as persons remain in existence, commands and prohibitions remain, and the laws of licit and illicit are binding on those to whom they are addressed: and only those venture on \~h~t is' doubtful who expose themselves to the commission of what is illicit.
Al-Jurayri' is recorded to have said: I heard Abu 'l-Qasim al-Iunayd say to a man who, speaking of cognition, said: The cognisant of God arrive at the abandonment of motions which belong to the category of charitable works and modes of approaching the Deity.
al-Muhassin at-Tanukhi after his father according to which the latter said:' We have been told by a number of learned persons that there is in Shiraz a man known as Ibn Khafif of Baghdad, head of the $ufi community there.