According to our religion it is something intolerable when the Moslem in the morning begins to say in prayer, God forbid! “I take refuge in God, etc.”[67] If any one of us hear it, he must kill the one who says it and kill himself; otherwise he becomes an infidel. ARTICLE VI When one of our sect is on the point of death, if there be no brother of the next world and his šeiḫ, or his _pîr_ and one of the _ḳawwâls_ with him to say three sayings over him, viz., “O servant of Melek Ṭâ´ûs, whose ways are high, you must die in the religion of the one we worship, who is Melek Ṭâ´ûs, whose ways are high, and do not die in any other religion than his. And if some one should come and say to you something from the Mohammedan religion, or Christian religion, or Jewish religion, or some other religion, do not believe him, and do not follow him. And if you believe and follow another religion than that of the one we worship, Melek Ṭâ´ûs, you shall die an infidel,” he becomes an infidel. ARTICLE VII We have something called the blessing of Šeiḫ ‘Adî, that is, the dust of the tomb Šeiḫ ‘Adî—may God sanctify his mystery! Every member of our sect must have some of it with him in his pocket and eat of it every morning. And if he eat not of it intentionally, he is an infidel. Likewise at the time of death, if he possess not some of that dust intentionally, he dies an infidel. ARTICLE VIII Regarding our fasting, if any one of our sect wish to fast, he must fast in his own place, not in another. For while fasting he must go every morning to the house of his šeih and his _pîr_, and there he must begin to fast; and when he breaks his fast, likewise, he must go to the house of his šeih and his _pîr_, and there break the fast by drinking the holy wine of the šeih or the _pîr_. And if he drink not two or three glasses of that wine, his fasting is not acceptable, and he becomes an infidel. ARTICLE IX If one of our sect go to another place and remain there as much as one year, and afterward return to his place, then his wife is forbidden him, and none of us will give him a wife. If anyone give him a wife, that one is an infidel. ARTICLE X Regarding our dress, as we have mentioned in the fourth Article that every one of our sect has a brother for the next world, he has also a sister for the next world.[68] Therefore if any one of us make for himself a new shirt, it is necessary that his sister for the next world should open its neck band, i. e., the neck band of that shirt, with her hand. And if she open it not with her hand, and he wear it, then he is an infidel. ARTICLE XI If some one of our sect make a shirt or a new dress, he cannot wear it without baptizing it in the blessed water which is to be found at the shrine of his highness Šeiḫ ‘Adî, may God sanctify his mystery! If he wear it, he is an infidel. ARTICLE XII