_Máh Ab_, the younger brother of the above _Mihráb_, was seen by the compiler of this work in attendance on the son of Farhad, and in the year of the Hejirah 1048 (A. D. 1638) he thus heard from the Mulla _Mahdi_ of Lahóre: “Bahram having one day sent him on some errand to the bazar, he happened to pass by the house of a person in the service of _Alim Uddin_ of Halsub, styled _Wazir Khan_; the soldier was then chastising his slave, saying: ‘Thou hast fraudulently sold one of my captives.’ Máháb coming near the soldier, said to him: ‘Withdraw thy hand from this slave, and accept me in place of him who has run away.’ Nay, this request was so importunately urged, that the soldier finally accepted the offer and desisted from beating his slave. However, when the soldier had discovered Máháb’s spiritual gifts, he permitted him to return home, but Máháb would not quit him. A week after this event, Farhad said in my presence, ‘I know not where Máháb is;’ on which, resting his head on his knees, he directed his heaven-contemplating attention to the subject, and the instant after, raising up his head, said: ‘Máháb is in the service of a certain soldier, and has voluntarily resigned his person to servitude.’ He forthwith proceeded to the soldier’s abode and brought back Máháb.” Many similar transactions are recorded of these sectaries. _Muhammed Shariz_, styled _Amir ul Umra_,[346] a Shirazi by descent, thus says: “Through auspicious love we make perfect peace in both worlds, Be thou an antagonist, but experience nothing but love from us.” It is to be observed that Halsub is a place in one of the districts of the _Parjab_. A short notice of the _Amîzesh-i Farhang_, or institute of the Abadíyah Durveshes, having been thus given, we next proceed to describe with the pen of truth the chiefs and rulers of that religion. But it is always to be borne in mind that the faith of the princes of Persia, whether of the _Abadian_, _Jaian_, _Shaian_, _Yesani-an_, nay of the _Peshdadian_, _Kaianian_, _Ashkanian_, and _Sassanian_ dynasties was such as has been described; and although the system of Zardusht obtained the pre-eminence, yet they have by means of glosses reconciled his faith with that professed by _Abad_, _Kaiomars_, and the system of _Húshang_, called the _Farhang Kesh_ or “excellent faith;”[347] they regarded with horror whatever was contrary to the code of Abád, which they extolled by all means in their power, as _Parviz_ the son of _Hormuz_,[348] in his answer to the Roman emperor, thus expresses himself: “We feel no shame in professing our ancient faith, No other creed in this world can compete with that of Húshang. The whole object of this code consists in promoting justice and love: And contemplating the numbers of the celestial spheres.”