After these ascetics had learned their strength from their union they began to take part in politics and worked zealously with that party that wished to overthrow the family and religion of Mohammed and place Ali and mysticism in their stead. They accordingly soon had martyrs in their ranks. Thus died at Bagdad the famous _Hosain Abou Meghith el Halladj_. To his school belonged the three giants of learning and piety: Abd-el-Kadir el Ghilani, Mohi ed Din Ebn-Aarabi el Moghrebi, and Omar Ebn el Faridh. We pen a few of his words: “I am He whom I love, and He whom I love is I; We are two spirits, inhabiting one outward frame: And when you behold me, you behold Him, And when you behold Him, you behold us twain.” He taught the freedom of the human will and wrote the following satire on the predestinarian system of Islam: “What can man do, if the decrees of predestination surround him, Binding him in his every state? answer me, O learned professor. He (_i. e._, as if He, that is God) cast him into the ocean, bound hand and foot, and then said to him, Woe to you, woe to you, should you get wet with the water.” He it is who thus in his verse addresses God: “I love Thee with a twofold love, the love of friendship, And the love grounded on this alone, that Thou art worthy of it. But as to that my love which is the love of friendship, It is a love which leaves me no thought for any save Thee; And as to the love of Thee according to Thy worthiness, O raise from betwixt us the vail, that I may behold Thee. Nor is any praise due to me either for this or for that (love), But to Thee alone the praise both for this and that.” Halladj’s three famous disciples gave their names to the three principal brotherhoods among the Mohammedans, and their work remains to this day. _Abd-el-Kadir el Ghilani_ was a Persian by birth and resided at Bagdad. Nobody doubted that he was the Kothb of his time, and as such he announced himself in his ecstatic state, though ordinarily he strove to conceal himself under the veil of a mean and despicable appearance. He founded the order of the Qadiriyah which association counted in its ranks some of the greatest names among Eastern mystics and poets. The doctrine of the order was that of Hosein el Halladj, whom he taught the order to look upon as their master, though their doctrine was commonly veiled under a seemingly orthodox terminology. They subsist to this day and are counted among the most prominent.