According to the thirty-seventh and last allegory of _Azz-eddin Elmocadessi_, an Arabian poet, who died in A. H. 678 (A. D. 1280), the assembled birds resolved to pass a profound sea, elevated mountains, and consuming flames, to arrive at a mysterious island where _Simurgh_ or _Enka maghreb_, “the wonderful,” resided, whom they wished to choose for their king. After having supported the fatigues, and surmounted the difficulties and perils of their voyage, they attained their aim, a delightful sojourn, where they found every thing that may captivate the senses. But when they offered their homage to Simurgh, he at first refused them, but having tried their perseverance in their attachment to him, he at last gratified their desire, and granted them ineffable beatitude.――(See _Les Oiseaux et les Fleurs_, Arabic text and French translation, by M. Garcin de Tassy, pp. 119, etc., and notes, p. 220). [211] The Súfis are divided into three great classes, to wit: 1. واصلان _vásilán_, “those who arrived (at the desired end),” the nearest to God; 2. سالكان _sálikan_, “the travellers, the progressive;” 3. مقيمان _mukíman_, “the stationaries.”――According to others (see Graham, Transact. of the Lit. Soc. of Bombay, vol. I. pp. 99. 100), a Súfi may be: 1. a _salik_, “traveller;” 2. a مجذوب _majezub_, “one attracted in a state of intoxication from the wine of divine love;” 3. a _majezub salik_, “an attracted traveller,” that is, a partaker of the above two states. I omit other divisions and subdivisions. [212] فيص Silvestre de Sacy translates “emanation, overflowing.”――(_Journal des Savans, déc._, 1821, p. 733.) [213] نشا is interpreted in the dictionary: growing, producing, being borne upward, etc.; above it can but signify “a condition of being.” [214] Koran. [215] In the Desátir the moon is called “the key of heaven.” [216] استفاضت and افاضت. [217] The weekly holiday of the Muhammedans. [218] جلال _jelál_, “glory, majesty.” I suppose “terrific majesty” may be understood. We find, in Richardson’s Dictionary, that a sect called _Jelálíyat_, followers of _Said Jelál Bokhari_, worship the more terrible attributes of the deity.