In the Journal Asiatique, 4me Serie, tome 11, a curious account is given of the voyage of Mirza Muhammad 'Ali Khan, some time Persian Ambassador in Paris. This gentleman states that in one of his voyages from Persia to India he met with a Wahhabi, who had in his possession a tract written by the founder of the sect. This small pamphlet he allowed Mirza Muhammad to copy. I give the substance of the pamphlet in this note. The original Arabic will be found in the Journal Asiatique. It is of considerable interest as a protest against idolatry. It is as follows:--I know that God is merciful, that the sect of Abu Hanifa is orthodox and identical with the religion of Abraham. After thou hast known that God has created His servants for the purpose of being served by them, know also that this service or devotion is to worship God, One and alone; just as prayer (Salat) is not prayer (Salat), unless it is accompanied with the legal purification. God Most High has said: "It is not for the votaries of other gods with God, witnesses against themselves of infidelity, to visit the temples of God. These! vain their works: and in the fire shall they abide for ever!" (Sura ix. 17.) Those who in their prayers, address any other than God, in the hope of obtaining by them that which God alone can give--those bring unto their prayers the leaven of idolatry and make them of none effect, "and who erreth more than he who, beside God, calleth upon that which shall not answer him until the day of resurrection." (Sura xlvi. 4) On the contrary, when the day of resurrection comes, they will become their enemies and treat them as infidels for having served others than God. "But the gods whom ye call on beside Him have no power over the husk of a date-stone! If ye cry to them they will not hear your cry; and if they heard they would not answer you, and in the day of resurrection they will disown your joining them with God." (Sura xxxv. 14,15.) He who says: "O thou Prophet of God! O 'Ibn 'Abbas! O 'Abd-ul-Qadir!" &c. with the persuasion that the souls of these blessed ones can obtain from God that of which the suppliant has need, or that they can protect him, is an infidel whose blood any one may shed, and whose goods any one may appropriate with impunity unless he repent. There are four different classes of idolaters. {115}