The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 1 (of 3): translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrations
Religion
The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 1 (of 3): translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrations
Iran -- Religion; Religions
When he heard the solutions of his questions he fell from his chair,
and on recovering his senses adopted the pure faith. The prophet Sásán
the Fifth, in his select commentary on the _Dasátir_ and the
interpretation of the code of Zardusht, relates, that when Isfendiar
had promulgated the pure faith, the eminent sages of Greece dispatched
a learned man, named _Niyátús_,[432] to interrogate the prophet of the
Lord concerning the exact nature of his tenets. Gushtasp, having
assigned him an audience on a most auspicious day. this distinguished
Greek, on beholding the face of Zardusht, said: “From this face,
knowledge, sagacity, and science are manifest as the properties of a
mind so formed; and this is not the physiognomy of one who utters
falsehoods.” He then asked him concerning the moment, day, month, and
year of his birth, which being communicated by Zardusht, Niyátús
observed: “Under such a horoscope, a person of weak intellects cannot
be born.” He next questioned him concerning his food, sleep, and mode
of life, which being also explained, Niyátús added: “From this rule of
life he cannot be an impostor.” The prophet of the Lord then said to
him: “Keep in thy heart whatever thou desirest to inquire about, and
utter it not with thy tongue; as the Almighty has acquainted me with
it, and for my sake has sent me his word in this chapter relative to
these matters.” On this, one of the prophet’s disciples read to
Niyátús, out of a single chapter, all that was laid up in the noble
envoy’s breast, and whatever he was commissioned to enquire about, at
the desire of the eminent men of Greece.
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