Dāwūd transmitted them to Ma’rūf of Kerkh (who died A.H. 200, A.D. 815); he to Sirrī the merchant of damaged goods (Es-Saqatī?; died A.H. 253, A.D. 867); and he to the great Juneyd (who died in about A.H. 297--A.D. 909). Juneyd’s spiritual pupil was Shiblī (died A.H. 334, A.D. 945); who taught Abū-‘Amr Muhammed, son of Ibrāhīm Zajjāj (the Glazier), of Nīshāpūr (who died in A.H. 348--A.D. 959); and his pupil was Abū-Bekr, son of ‘Abdu-’llāh, of Tūs, the Weaver, who taught Abū-Ahmed (Muhammed son of Muhammed, El-Gazālī (who died A.H. 504--A.D. 1110)), and he committed those mysteries to Ahmed el-Khatībī, Jelāl’s great-grandfather, who consigned them to the Imām Sarakhsī (who died in A.H. 571--A.D. 1175). Sarakhsī was the spiritual teacher of Jelāl’s father Bahā Veled, who taught the Seyyid Burhānu-’d-Dīn Termīzī, the instructor of Jelāl. He again passed on the tradition to Shemsu-’d-Dīn of Tebrīz, the teacher of Jelāl’s son, Sultan Veled, who himself taught the Emīr ‘Ārif. At the same time that the mysteries were thus being gradually transmitted to Jelālu-’d-Dīn and his successors by these links, they were also being diffused in thousands of other channels, and are at this day widely diffused over the world of Islām, which daily boasts of its living saints and their miracles. These latter are perhaps not less veracious than those continually blazoned forth by the Church of Rome, and by its Eastern sisters. We, too, have our spiritualists. Credulity will never forsake mankind and prodigies will never be lacking for the credulous to place faith in. There is much that is human in man, all the world over. THE BOOK OF THE MESNEVĪ OF MEVLĀNĀ JELĀLU-’d-DĪN, MUHAMMED, ER-RŪMĪ, OF QONYA. PREFACE.