“I then saw _Mihr Ized_,[439] at whose side were standing _Rash Rast_[440] and _Sarúsh Ized_ holding a balance in his hand, and angels assembled around them. Now Mihr Ized is the angel whose province it is to number and estimate people in regard to rewards and punishments. Rash is his minister of justice and the lord of equity; and Sarúsh is the lord of messages and the master of announcements. To these I made my salam which they returned, and I passed over the bridge.[441] Several spirits then appeared who addressed me affectionately; Báhmán next appeared and said to me: ‘Come on, that I may show thee the _Gah-i-zarin’_ (or golden place, which is the same as the celestial throne). I proceeded with him to a beautiful throne, where I beheld the spirit before mentioned, whose deeds were personified by a beauteous form, with the _Ashwan_, or ‘pure spirits,’ and the inhabitants of paradise around him, with the spirits of his relations rejoicing as on the arrival of a long-absent traveller from his abode; then Báhmán took his hand and brought him to a place worthy of him. When I had proceeded a little onwards, I beheld a lofty portico, where by order of Surúsh I addressed my prayers towards the place of God, and my sight became darkened through the effulgence of light. Surúsh again brought me back to the bridge of judgment, around which I beheld a number of persons standing with folded hands. I asked: ‘Who are those persons?’ Surúsh answered: ‘These are the weak in faith, who remain in this state until the day of judgment: if they possessed an additional particle of virtue, equal in weight to one of the hairs of the eyelash, they would be relieved from this calamity.’ I then beheld another assemblage like unto shining stars. Surush said: ‘This is the _Satra Payah_,[442] (or the sphere of the fixed stars); in these are a people who with all their wealth observed not the _Gítí Kharíd_[443] (the purchase of the other world) and the _Naú Roz_ (or the festival of the new year.)’ He next brought me to the _Máh Páyah_ (or lunar sphere), where I beheld spirits resplendent as the moon. The angel said: ‘this _Máh Páyah_ is also one of the spheres of paradise, in which are those who have performed every kind of meritorious act and deed, except observing the _Naú Roz_.’ He then conducted me to the _Khúrshíd Páyah_ (or solar sphere) where I beheld spirits exceedingly bright, radiant as the sun. The angel said: ‘In the solar sphere are the persons who have observed the _Gítí Kharíd_ and the _Naú Roz_.’ At his command, I then addressed my prayers to the _Warakt_ and _Khurah-i-Yazdan_, or ‘light of the Almighty:’ perception and intellect, through the effects of terror and overpowering awe, began to flee from me; a voice, however, from which I obtained renovated energy, came to my hearing: there was then some oil[444] given me to drink out of a golden cup: I partook of it and found it of an incomparable taste: they told me that it was the food of the people of