"As the city of Benares, which is the seat of Hindu science, was a dependency of this explorer of truth (Dara-Shikoh), having assembled the Pundits and Sanyasis who are the expounders of the Vedas and Upanishads, he caused a translation to be made of the latter into Persian. This was completed in the year of the Hegira, 1067, A.D., 1656. Every difficulty was elucidated by this ancient compilation, which, without doubt, is the first of inspired works, the fountain of truth, the Sea of the Unity; not only consentaneous with the Koran, but a commentary on it." [61] Founded by Abdul Qadir Gilani. [62] According to the reported saying of Muhammad, "He who knows himself, knows God." [63] Chapter 5. [64] The great mystic poet of Persia (A.D. 1207-1272). APPENDIX I MOHAMMEDAN CONVERSIONS By Mohammedan Conversion is not here meant conversion from Christianity to Mohammedanism, or _vice versa_, but those spiritual crises which take place _within_ Mohammedanism, as within Christianity, by which the soul is stung as with a regenerating shudder to use George Eliot's phrase, to rise from a notional to a real belief in God. Mohammedan theologians are as aware of this distinction as Christian ones. Thus Al Ghazzali, in his _Revival of the Religious Sciences_, is very sarcastic on the indulgence in the common expletive, "We take refuge in God," by Mohammedans without attaching any real meaning to it. He says: "If you see a lion coming towards you, and there is a fort close by, you do not stand exclaiming, 'I take refuge in this fort!' but you get into it. Similarly, when you hear of the wrath to come, do not merely _say_, 'I take refuge in God,' but take refuge in Him."