“O Thou, whose name is the beginning of the book of the children of the school, Thy remembrance is to the adult amongst the Sages the torch of their nightly retirement; Without thy name the tongue fails the palate of the barbarians, Although they know the language of Arabia;[224] _Having_ the heart in the body _full_ of thy remembrance, the novice, as well as the adept, in contemplation _Becomes_ a supreme king of beatitude, and the throne of the kingdom of gladness. Whatever road I took, it joined the street _which leads_ to Thee; The desire _to know_ thy being is also the life of the meditators; He who found that there is nothing but Thee, has found the _final_ knowledge; The móbed is the teacher of thy truth, and the world a school.” Blessing without limit to the mighty Being, the Lord of existence, the rider upon the sun of the celestial sphere _which is_ the eye-witness _of his glory_; _to Him_ whose servant is Saturn, Baharam (Mars) the messenger, Jupiter the star, _the herald of good fortune_, Venus the slave; _to Him who is_ the ornament of the throne of the empire of the faith, and the crown of divinity of the kingdom of truth.” Masnavi.[225] “The being to whom the holy God said: If not thee, I would not have created the worlds;[226] That primitive wisdom and that soul of the world; That man of spirit, and that spirit of man. Blessing be also to the Khalifs of the faithful, and to the Lords of the Imáns of the faith.”[227] Rabaâi (quatrain). “The world is a book full of knowledge and of justice, The binder of which book is destiny, and the binding the beginning and the end; The suture of it is the law, and the leaves are the religious persuasions; The whole nation is formed of its disciples, and the apostle is the teacher.” In this book, called “The Dabistan,” is contained something of the knowledge and faith of past nations, of the speeches and actions of modern people, as it has been reported by those who know what is manifest, and see what is concealed; as well as by those who are attached to exterior forms, and by those who discern the inward meaning, without omission, and diminution, without hatred, envy and scorn, and without taking a part for the one, or against the other side of the question. This work is composed of several chapters.