A person named Malik Mirzá said: “O Báyezíd, beware of arrogant speech, and call not men detestable; whoever likes, may follow thy path, but if he does not like it, let him remain away from it.” Míyán Róshen Báyezíd answered: “I will propose a simile: if in a house which should have but one door, a great number of persons had fallen asleep, and in that house fire had broken out; if by accident one person should be awake, ought he to awake the others, or not?” His adversaries said: “O Báyezíd, since God Almighty has charged thee with his orders, declare, ‘Jabriyil descended to me, and I am the Mahdi;’ but call not the people infidels and detestable.” Míyán Róshen Bayazíd did not think it right to eat of the flesh of an animal killed by a person whom he did not know, and who did not adhere to the rule of the unity of God. Báyezíd knew that: “A _worldly_ wise man, before man, is living, but before God, dead; his form is like the form of a man, but his qualities like the qualities of beasts; whilst a man, knowing God, is living before God; his form is like the form of a man, and his qualities are like the qualities of the merciful God.” Báyezíd said to his father Abd ullah: “The Arabian prophet has declared: “_Sheríát_, ‘the law,’ is like night; _Taríkat_, ‘religious rule,’ is like the stars; _Hakiket_, ‘the truth,’ is like the moon; and _Mârifet_, ‘the true knowledge,’ like the sun; and nothing is superior to the sun.” Míyán Báyezíd Róshen said: “The matter of the law rests upon the five fundamental principles of the Muselmans.[25] Pronouncing the words of the faith, and joining to the words the belief in their truth; these are the actions of the law. The _tasbíh_, “rosary;” the _tahlíl_, “praise of God;” the being constantly employed in the verbal commemoration of the _attributes of God_; the guarding of the heart from temptation: this is the business of _taríkat_, “religious rule.” To keep the fast of the month Ramazan, and to abstain from eating, drinking, and sexual intercourse; this is the business of _sheríât_, “the law.” Fasting beyond the demands of duty; not filling the belly, but training it to a scanty diet; and restraining the body from what is bad: this is the business of _taríkat_. The _Zacat_, “stated alms,” and the giving of the tithe, is the business of _sheríât_; but the distribution of food and raiment to the fakírs and performers of fasts, and the taking by the hand the distressed, is the business of _taríkat_. To perform the circuit around the house of the friend of God,[26] and to be free from wickedness, and crime, and warring, is the business of the _sheríât_; but to perform the circuit of the house of the friend of God, to wit the heart,[27] to combat bodily propensities, and to worship the angels, is the business of _taríkat_.