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preserve her swiftness to her and that she might be a domestick Bird and belov'd of Men. He pray'd him also to give her patience to endure the loss of her young ones and gave her his benediction her feet have been red from that very time He let her go seven days after and she return'd bringing an Olive-leaf in her Beak and told him for news that there was not remaining on the surface of the Earth any Tree but the Olive-tree They say the Earth was dry the 27th day of the 11th Moneth of the year After that God revealed to Noah that he should let out the Beasts and the Reptiles out of the Ark. Noah cry'd out so violently at it that he fell into a Feaver They say those who were in the Ark were incommodated with the dung of the Creatures which oblig'd Noah to give a cuff o'th'Ear to the Elephant by vertue of which cuff the Elephant sneez'd and cast out a Hog which took away that ordure They say also that the Rats troubling them Noah gave a box o'th'Ear to the Lion who sneez'd out a Cat which devour'd the Rats Others say these stories were invented for pleasure sake and that they are not of faith as having no grounds Noah came afterwards out of the Ark with his four Sons Sem Cham Japhet and Jacheton which is he whom God gave him in the Ship Then God said thus to them Multiply fill the Earth and cultivate it I give you my benediction and take my curse from the Earth permitting it to bring forth its good things its fruits and productions Then he added speaking to them Eat that which is permitted and good and shun what is impure as Beasts sacrific'd to Idols or naturally dead and Swine's Flesh and whatever hath been Sacrific'd to any other then God Kill no man for God forbids the doing of it unless it be by the way of Justice It is written in the Law of Moses that after they were come out of the Ark and settled in the Earth God spake thus to them Multiply and fill the Earth let the Beasts of it fear and respect you and all the Fowls in the Air and all the Fish in the Sea In the great Alcoran it is spoken of this in these terms Then it was said to him O Noah descend out of the Ark in peace on our part and the rest of the Verse Then Noah ordered them to built every one a Habitation whereupon they built fourscore of them in the City which is to this day called the City of Themanine that is Fourscore They afterwards fell a Sowing and Planting of Trees They had ready for that end the Seeds the Corn and the Fruit which had been put up in the Ship there was onely the Vine that is the Tree which bears Grapes which Noah wanted and could not find Whereupon Gabriel told him that the Devil had stoln it away as having some part in it Noah thereupon sent for him and when he was present he said to him O cursed Spirit why hast thou done this Because I have part in it said the Devil Divide it then between you said Gabriel I am content said Noah I resign him the fourth part of it 'T is not enough for him said Gabriel Well said Noah I will take one half let him take the other It is not yet enough said Gabriel but he must have two thirds of it and thou one When therefore the juice of it shall have boyl'd over the fire till two thirds thereof be consum'd thou shalt be allow'd the use of the rest and in like manner the Grape as well new as dry and the Viniger As to the surplusage which may inebriate it is forbidden thee and thy posterity thou art not to expect any part thereof from the Devil nor to commence any action against him for it Then the Devil God hinder him from doing harm said thus to Noah Gods peace be with him I am oblig'd to you for the great kindness you have done me and for which I shall not be ungrateful O Noah beware of Envy Intemperance Avarice and Impatience For Envy enclin'd me to make God incensed against me and was the cause of my banishment out of Paradice Intemperance made your Father Adam transgress the Commandment of his Lord and eat the fruit of the Tree Avarice made Cabel kill his Brother Abel And Impatience brought you to make imprecations against your Nation which caused God to bring destruction on all and hath given a relaxation of the pains I took to deceive them Then Noah caused the Shrine wherein Adams body was to be brought into the Cave of Old Age at Meca and left it there The History relates that when Noah took the Scorpion and the Serpent into the Ship with him he pray'd his Almighty and All-good Lord to take away their venom from them which was granted When therefore he put them out of it they spoke thus to him O Prophet of God pray your Lord for us that he would restore us our venom and that we may make our advantage thereof against our enemies and by means thereof defend our selves against those who would injure us We promise you in requital and in the name of God we grant that whoever shall every day and every night pronounce these words God grant peace to Noah for ever we will not come near him and will do him no hurt Noah pray'd to his Lord and he order'd the making of that agreement and that security to be taken of them and after he had done it God restored to them their venom according to what he had ordain'd by his Providence since no man can destroy what he h 〈…〉 ordain'd nor defer the execution 〈◊〉 his Judgments They say moreover that when the Chastisement was taken from the Inhabitants of t 〈…〉 Earth and that fair weather ha◠succeeded the Clouds Noah look'd 〈◊〉 on high and that having observ 〈…〉 the Rain-bow he said thus Wh 〈…〉 means this O Lord And that G 〈…〉 answer'd him This is an assurance 〈◊〉 the Inhabitants of the Earth th 〈…〉 there shall be no more Deluge The Kings of Egypt who Reig 〈…〉 before the Deluge says the Author and were Coptites are Craos the Gyant and his son Tegares and his son Mesra 〈…〉 and his son Gancam and his son Gari 〈…〉 and his son Louchanam and his 〈◊〉 Chasalim and his son Harsal and his son Jadousac and his son Semrod and his son Josedon and his son Sariac and his son Sahaloc and his son Saurid who built the Pyramids and his son Hargib and his son Menaos and his son Ecros After that the successio 〈…〉 from Father to Son was interrupted which oblig'd the Egyptians to tak 〈…〉 for their King a certain man of the Royal House named Ermelinos and after him Pharaan who was the first who reigned insolently and tyrannically and who gave the name to the Pharaohs He was also the last
of God Gracious and Merciful God bless Mahumet and his Family From Gabdol Omar the son of Chettabus Commander of the Faithful to the Nile of Egypt After that If thou hast flow'd hitherto onely by thy own virtue flow no more but if it hath been the Only and Almighty God that hath caused thee to flow we pray the Only Great and All-mighty God to make thee flow again Gods peace and mercy be with Mahumet the Idiot-Prophet and his Family Gamrou took the Note and came to the Nile one day before they celebrated the Feast of the Cross the Egyptians and others being ready to leave the Countrey for they could not carry on their affairs nor subsist therein but by the annual overflowing of the Nile but the next morning they found that God had caused the Waters to rise sixteen Cubits in one night So God delivered the Mussulmans out of that affliction praise and thanksgiving be to him for it Gabdol the son of Gamrou the son of Gasus Gods peace be with them both speaks thus of the Nile The Nile of Egypt is the Lord of Rivers God obliges all the Rivers from the the East to the West to wait on it at the time of its overflowing he turns them all into its Chanel and increases its course with their waters When God would have the Nile of Egypt to overflow for the convenience of the Inhabitants the other Rivers lend it their waters and God causes new Springs to rise out of the Earth When its course is risen to the height that God would he orders the waters to return to their Sources God All-mighty speaks thus of it And we have made them to issue out of the Gardens and the Fountains and out of the manured lands and out of the precious places The Gardens saith he were the two sides of the Nile from its beginning to its end upon both the Banks between Syene and Rasid Egypt had then sixteen Cubits of water accounting from the lowest part of the flat Countrey They empty'd and filled the Chanels and Rivulets of it every year What was yet more noble were the Places appointed for Orations which were a thousand in number upon which they called upon God for Pharao and they pray'd him to grant him a long life and to make him liberal and of easie access Aburaham the Semaguian in his Comment upon these words of Pharao Is not the Kingdom of Egypt mine and the rest of the Verse peaks thus There was then no greater King upon Earth then the King of Egypt for all the other Kings stood in need of Egypt All the Currents were made with the hands of Men and the Aqueducts and the Fountains and the Bridges all according to Measure and Geometrical proportion They drew them out of the Nile and brought them into all their Houses and into all their Castles and made them flow under the places of their Habitations detaining them when they pleased and dismissing them in like manner Mechacol the Son of Tabicus speaks of it in these terms I have read a hundred Books upon the Law of Moses and have found in one of them that there are seven Climats in the world which pray to God every year weeping and crying and say O Lord send plenty into Egypt and make its Nile flow For when Egypt is water'd we have Meat and Drink enough Withall there is on our surface of Wild Beasts and Reptiles and Tame and Rational Creatures Gabdol the son of Gamrou said By the true God I know not any year wherein the Inhabitants of Egypt went out of their Countrey to seek a subsistence elsewhere We shall never go out of it says one of them if some enemy do not force us thereto Not so reply'd he but your Nile shall be swallowed under ground so that there shall not be a drop of it left It shall be full of Sand-banks and the wild Beasts of the Earth shall devour its Fishes Jezidus the son of Chebibus speaks thus of it The Nile of Egypt in the time of Pharao and the Precedent Kings had People appointed to make its Chanels to repair its Bridges and Banks and to clear its Rivulets and Trenches of Oziers Ordures Paper-plants and what ever might obstruct the course of the Water when there was occasion to the number of six score thousand Work-men always ready to work Winter and Summer receiving their pay Monethly out of the publick Treasury as the Soldiery as well by Sea as Land receiv'd theirs out of the Kings Money The son of Lahigus saith that he heard it of one of Alexandria that the Nile one day discover'd a Rock on which there was somewhat written in the Roman Language which was read and signify'd as followeth I do what is good and he seems to forget it but when I do what is evil he remembers it well He who is such will not be long ere he meet with a long repose An Abbridgement of what is said of Pharao and how God destroy'd him by the Decree of his Divine Will Gali the son of Abutalchus speaks thus of him Pharao King of Egpyt was a Dwarf or little Man but seven spans in height Others say he was three Cubits high and that his Beard was two Cubits long so that when he sate he drew one Cubit of it on the ground before him He twisted up his Mustachoes and put them above his two ears When the water of the Nile was turned into Blood in the time of Moses Pharao drunk the juice of Orange-leaves with fine Sugar put into it Some affirm he was of low Stature mark'd with white spots and that he trod on his Beard it was so long Abubeker the Truth-teller Gods peace be with him said that Pharao had lost all his Teeth Others affirm he was of the Race of the Amalekites Others say he had a large fleshy face Others say they call'd him Abumarus that is Married Others say he was a Weaver of Ciprus an Inhabitant of Ispahan and that Haman was his Associate that both of them became poor and lost all they had so that necessity having forc'd them to quit the Countrey and run away they came together into Egypt and prevail'd so much by their sleights and artifices that they became Masters of it and that there happened to them what God revealed to Mahumet Gods peace and merey be with him as it is related by the son of Gubasus Others say that Pharao was a Coptite of a City named Damra the most Western of any in Egypt and that his name was Dolmes Mahumet the son of Gali the son of Gabdol the Teminian says thus A Barbarian Egyptian of the Inhabitants of Copta skill'd in the History of Egypt and what concerns the nature and properties of the Countrey told me that he found it written in one of their ancient Books that the Nile of Egypt hath its rising out of a Lake in the most remote Countries of the West on both
shall take the Kingdom of Egypt by force There shall be in that Province Mosqueys and Temples wherein they shall make their Prayers the noise whereof shall be heard like the humming of Bees Their Empire shall extend to the Eastern parts of the World and to the Western and even to the end of the World Afterwards the Patrician sent to Omar Gods peace be with him to get his Protection for himself and those of his House and to agree wâ—th him upon such conditions as he should desire and be satisfy'd withall The Solphian God shew him mercy citing for Author the Chasan son of Ismael the Sarrabian in the Bâ—ok of the Histories of Egypt which he hath composed speaks in these terms I have heard that the Land of Alphiom and its appurtenances were heretofore governed by the Prophet of God Joseph Gods peace be with him according to the Revelation which he had had of it and the Command given him by All-mighty God and divided into three hundred and sixty Towns or Villages as many as there are days in the year and that with a design which he brought to effect For when the Nile fail'd any year and that God heard not the Prayers made for the augmentation of its course every one of those Villages supply'd Egypt with a days sustenance There is no Countrey in the World that has been reduced and cultivated by Divine Revelation but this There is not upon Earth a less and yet a more fertile Province nor one that abounds in all sorts of good things or is better furnished with Rivers For if we compare the Rivers of Alphiom with those of Bosra and Damas we shall find the former have the advantage Many persons excellent for their wit and knowledge would have given us the number of its Chanels and its free and common places but they could not number them Others have not medled with the Chanels and have only set down the common places of that Countrey which are not in the possession of any person Mussulman or Alien and whereof the mighty and the weak make equal advantage and they have found about seventy sorts 'T is related of the Man 〈…〉 us God shew him mercy that when he came to Egypt he sent for several of the chiefest Inhabitants of the Countrey and among others two Learned men one surnamed Abulseriphus and the other Saguidus the son of Gaphirus of whom he enquired concerning the advantages of Egypt and what things made it recommendable Suguidus the son of Gaphirus made him a large discourse after which he said to Abulseriphus Do you also tell us what you know of the excellencies of your Countrey Abulseriphus praised God and gave him thanks and prayed for the Prophet Gods peace and mercy be with him after which Lord Commander of the Faithful said he Joseph the teller of Truth Gods peace and mercy be with him after God had put the affairs of this our Province into his hands and given him a Supremacy in it obliged the Inhabitants to serve him in the Western parts in a Land now called Alphiom where he caused three hundred and sixty great Farms to be cultivated as many as there are days in the year so that the Village of each Farm furnished the Inhabitants of Egypt with a days fustenance Joseph did this by Revelation which he had had from his Lord. Had he made as many on the East side we should have had more then we needed all the provisions which might have been brought from the Eastside For we have one day in the West It may be my Lord said the Mamunus the Sun rises in the West Before that said Abulseriphas the Barbarians will come Who told you that said the Mamunus I found it said Abulseriphus in the Book of the Prophet Daniel Gods peace be with him Is it necessary said the Mamumus that the Barbarians come It is said Abulseriphus insomuch that they shall come to the Land that is to the Countrey of Emesse and then there will be no other Sanctuary but Jerusalem and they shall have no other sustenance but Lupins He afterwards entertained him with long Discourses which to avoid tedeousness we shall abridge Then he said to him Lord Commander of the Faithful if our Countrey had no other advantage then what God says of it in the History of his Prophet Joseph Gods peace be with him when he speaks thus to the King Give me the oversight of the Store-houses of the Land it were enough Hasam the son of Isaac says that Joseph Gods peace and mercy be with him when he was Master of Egypt and highly favoured by the Rajan his Pharao after he had passed a hundred years of age was envyed by the Kings Favourites and the Grandees of his Court by reason of the great power he had and the Kings great affection towards him and that they one day spoke thus to him Great King Ioseph is now grown very ancient his knowledge is diminished his beauty is decay'd his Judgment is impaired and his Wisdom is departed from him Pharao liked not their remonstrances and was so far from approving their discourses that he gave them harsh language so that for a good while after they durst not say any thing to him concerning Ioseph but two years after they renew'd their formes envious discourses whereupon the King said to them Tell me wherein you would have me make a tryal of his abilities Alphiom was then called Geouna that is to say the Fenne and served for a Common Sewer to the Upper Egypt and a passage for the water They therefore agreed together about what they should propose to the King for the tryal of Ioseph Gods peace and mercy be with him and spoke thus to Pharao Command Ioseph to turn the water of Geouna and force it thence that you may have a new Province and a new revenue The King thereupon sent for Ioseph and said to him You know how dear such a Daughter of mine is to me and you see it is time I should assign her some place where she may be Mistress and whereof the Revenues may be sufficient to maintain her and I do not find any Lands besides my own which I can give her unless it be Geouna For that Land is neither too near nor at too great a distance and there is no coming into it of any side unless it be through desart and dangerous places the case will be the same with her none can come near her on any side but through desart and dangerous places Another besides Hasam says that Alphiom is in the midst of Egypt as Egypt is in the midst of other Countries in regard one cannot get into Egypt on any side but through places that are desart and full of danger That is true great King said Ioseph according to Hasam when does it please you to have it so for it will be with the assistance of All-mighty God The sooner
of thy Cittadels spread over me the vail of thy protection and turn not away thy eyes from me give me not over into the tuition of any other free me from the evil devices of thy creatures favour me with the abundance of thy graces and with that of thy goods whereof the use is allowed through thy mercy O most merciful of all the merciful God give his Benedictions to our Lord Mahumet and to those of his family and to those of his company and to his wives and to those who follow them in well-doing to the day of judgment Praise be to God the Lord of the world Megavius the son of Salichus relates as having learnt it of Abuharirus God shew him mercy that Ioseph Gods peace be with him when he was brought into Aegypt began to weep night and day out of the grief it was to him to be so far from his father and brethren and that one night which he consecrated to God and which he spent in prayer he implor'd the assistance of God and without any noise spoke thus to his Lord O Lord thou hast brought me out of the Country which I love best of any in the world do me good in this where I now am and assist me therein with thy favours cause me to be loving to the Inhabitants of these Provinces into which thou hast brought and conducted me and in like manner cause them to love me give me wherewithall to subsist therein happily and handsomely and do me favour that I may not die till thou hast brought my Brethren and me together with joy and satisfaction and put us into a capacity of enjoying the happiness of this world and that of the other After that Ioseph fell asleep and saw in his dream some body who said to him Ioseph God hath heard thy prayer he will raise in thee an affection to the Country into which he hath brought thee insomuch that there shall not be any other in the world more pleasant to thee as he hath alwaies made it amiable to those who have entred into it before thee and in like manner he will render it amiable to those who shall enter into it after thee for no body shall be desirous to go out of it after he is once come into it He will in like manner cause thee to be lov'd by its Inhabitants and will make thee Master and Governour of it He will also bring you together thee and thy Father and thy Brethren in the midst of thy reign and government and will give thee joy and satisfaction Take courage therefore upon this hope and be jocund and chearful and know Ioseph that this Province is the Mother of Nations and the support of Men and that the Treasures and Wealth of the Earth are in it Joseph awaked thereupon extreamly glad and satisfi'd and from that time advanc'd by degrees to the condition which God had promis'd him alwaies hoping the accomplishment of the promises which he had made him till that God brought â—hem together him and his Father and his Brethren Ever since Aegypt hath been ever lov'd and desir'd no Forreigner comes into it but is glad to continue there and departs thence but he regrets it and desires to return into it again After God had brought him to Reign and brought them together him and his Father and his Brethren in the flower of his glory power and grandeur he humbled himself before God and abstain'd from the goods of the world aspiring to those which are with God and said according to what God himself relates of him by the mouth of his Prophet Mahumet Gods peace and mercy be with him in his glorious Book My Lord you have brought me to Reign and have given me the knowledge of interpreting obscure discourses O Creator of the Heavens and the Earth You are my Protector in this world and in the other give me the grace to die a Mussulman and bring me into the company of the Vertuous God granted him all that God bless him and his holy Fathers Abumuchammed the Achemimian the Dyer God have mercy on him related to me at Masre what follows sayes the Author I went often said he to the Country of Gize about some affairs I had there and some debts I was to receive from certain Labourers of those parts so that I saw the Pyramids at a distance but the trouble and disquiet I was in proceeding from my affairs permitted me not to go to them nor to come nearer them to consider them at leisure and to contemplate their structure and the exquisite artifice of their Fabrick I was acquainted with and much esteem'd the Prelate of the great Mosquey of that Country so that one night I took up my lodging at his house and discover'd to him my thoughts concerning the Pyramids telling him that I had always been so taken up with my affairs that I had not as yet gone so far to consider them but that I had a great desire to see them and to contemplate the structure thereof and the excellency of the artifice employ'd therein He thereupon spoke thus to me Brother if these Pyramids were in China or at the extremities of the West those who should hear talk of them would have the curiosity to go thither to see them and to consider the admirable structure thereof what therefore ought they to do who are here in the Country where they are and so near them My Father told me that he had seen Magedolmelic Macherir the blind man who got the Alcoran read to him at the gate of the Western Castle Gods mercy on him in the time of the Prelate Must agalibemrillus who had seen him I say at these Pyramids attended by an Ethiopian Youth who led him by the hand and that the Youth having brought him upon the Pyramid which lies Eastward he felt the graving of it with his hand and what was written upon it and admir'd it praising and giving thanks to God continually for the knowledge he had inspir'd his servants withall and the excellency of their workmanship and Geometry My Father saluted him and spoke thus to him O Lord you put your self to much trouble and take a great deal of pains to get up and down this Pyramid O Brother reply'd he to travel up and down the Country and to consider the tracks of ancient Nations and past ages is one of those things which are recomended to us that those who want examples may thereby find some for their instruction and that the sloathful and sleepy may therein meet with what may awake them out of their slumber and oblige them to consider the Kingdom of the Heavens and the Earth and the Miracles and prodigious things which God hath placed therein These Pyramids are one of the most miraculous things of any in Egypt after the Nile For as to the Nile its flowings and ebbings depend on a wisedom known only to him who gives it its
unite you God protect you God make you prosper God raise you to honour God give you peace I I recommend to you the fear of God and I recommend you to the All-mighty and All-good God and I pray him to have a care of you after me O Apostle of God said we to him when will your day be The time is very neer said he behold I return to God and to the Garden of Retirement and the Paradise above Who shall wash you said we O Apostle of God The men of my House reply'd he according to the order of their nearness In what shall we bury you O Apostle of God said we In my Garments if you please said he or in those of the happy Arabia or in the white ones of Egypt Who shall make the Prayer for you O Apostle of God said we weeping Trouble not your selves for that said he God be merciful to you and reward you for the care you have of your Prophet When you have wash'd me and laid me into a Sheet put me into my Coffin which is here by the side of my Tomb then depart from me for a while till my good friend Gabriel hath Prayed for me and after him Michael then Esraphiel then the Angel of Death with many other Angels whom God Bless After that return to me and come near me one after another and pray God heartily to grant me peace and mercy and forbear importuning me with Cries Weeping and Lamentations The first who shall make the Prayer for me shall be the men of my own House then their Wives then you Continue in peace with those of my Companions who are at a great distance from me and with those who have followed me in my Religion till the day of the Resurrection I make you witnesses of the Benediction which I give all those who have embraced the Mussulman Religion This is the Testament which the Prophet God grant him peace and mercy made before his death It suffices for the glory of Egypt that he mention'd it at his death and that he ordered they should bury him in the white Garments of Egypt What greater glory can there be then that The incomparable old Man Doctor of the sayings and actions of the Prophet Abugabdol Mahumet the son of Negaman Gods peace be with him relates upon the credit of him from whom he heard it that the Apostle of God God grant him peace and mercy spoke one day in these terms The hand of God is upon Egypt the Inhabitants of it are favoured with a particular Protection from God and with a happy prosperity The Ancient Abugabdol explicating these words of the Prophet speaks thus That hand signifies Power and Divine assistance Guebad the son of Mahumet Gods peace be with him speaks thus Sitting one day in the great Ancient Mosquery of Masre which God preserve I heard a Citizen who related it as a thing which he had learnt from some great Person that it was on a time asked one of the Sages of Egypt What is the most delightful thing that ever you saw Fruit reply'd he when they appear clustered all about the Trees and Plants like Clouds which closely follow one another What was the best thing you did ever eat What was presented to me said he in a quiet place without trouble and disturbance when I have been very hungry What was the most pleasant Drink you ever tasted The remainders said he of the overflowing of the Nile of Egypt in the Spring time What was the most delightful thing you ever heard The eloquent voice said he of a Person reading the Alcoran and pronouncing it distinctly without Singing and without Artifice In what did you find your self most commodiously clad In Linnen half worn out reply'd he in Summer and in any other Cloath or Stuffe in Winter Do you find any thing better then that Yes reply'd he Health It is related of one of Lawyers of Egypt God shew him mercy that he said I have heard a man who related in the Tent of the Commander of the Faithful Gamrou the son of Gasus Gods peace be with him or over against it as a thing which he had from Mecdad the son of Magdaquerbe the Zebidian that the Prophet Gods peace and mercy be with him spoke thus No man can eat any thing better in this World then what he eats by the labour of his hands For the Prophet of God David liv'd by the labour of his hands 'T is related of Bara Gods peace be with him that he said thus upon this occasion The Prophets and Devout persons have always endeavoured to get their Livelihood by lawful ways Adam Gods peace be with him was a Labourer Seth a Weaver Edrisus a Taylor Noah a Carpenter Cadar a Mule-keeper David an Armourer Abraham a Sower of Seeds others say a Weaver of Lawn Salich a Marchant Moses and Saguib and Mahumet Gods peace and mercy be with them were Shepherds Locman a Taylor Jesus the son of Mary a Pilgrim Abubeker and Omar and Othman and Gali and Gabdorrachaman the son of Guph and Talche were Merchants Trading in Cypres and Lawnes Maimoune the son of Meharam and Mahumet the son of Sirin were also Lawn-Merchants Zebir the son of Gauam and Gamrou the son of Gasus and Gamer the son of Carir were Silk-Merchants Job the Skinner sold Goats-Skins Sagad the son of Abuvacas drove a Trade in Dyers Woad Othman the son of Mahumet the Lachamian was a Taylor Malich the son of Dinar was a Writer Neguim the Deaf God grant him mercy related to my what follows There was said he in the Caraph at Masre a devout man who stood every Friday at the Gate of the great old Mosquey of the same side with Gamrou's House after the Prelate had concluded the Prayer and cry'd out with a loud voice There is no other God but the great God alone without Associate It is he who Reings He ought to be Praised Life and Death proceed from him He ever lives and never dies That which is good is in his Hand To him all things return He is able to do all things All those who heard him repeated what he said till there remained but few persons in the Mosquey then at last he said O Assembly of the Faithful he who abstains from things forbidden obtains remission of his Sins he who is content with what God sends him hath Wealth enough he who eschews evil is in safety He ceased not to do this till God call'd him God grant him mercy He lies Buried in the Cemitery of Masre which God protect against its Enemies and keep in his Holy custody Amen It is in God we hope it is good to wait upon him God grant peace to our Lord Mahumet and to those of his House and those of his Party and fill him with his Benedictions Behold the Book finish'd by the grace of our glorious Lord let him be praised and exalted and glorify'd This Copy