A FEW WORDS MORE ABOUT EDRIS, U. W. B., ETC.

Some have said that Edris was one hundred years old at the time of Adam’s death; others say three hundred and sixty. Concerning the length of his life, there are also various opinions. It is related that he was sent to prophesy two hundred years after the decease of Adam, and that he obtained thirty pages [of revelation]. His law agreed with that of Adam; his book contained the secrets of heaven, and the way of subjugating spiritual things, curious and wonderful sciences and arts, the knowledge of the nature of all existing things, etc. He preached one hundred and five, and according to others one hundred and eight years. But the Emâm, the sun of truth and of religion, Muhammad Bin Muhammad Shaharruzi, who is the author of the ‘Tarikh-i Hukmâ,’ which is in the possession of the writer, in the author’s own handwriting, has narrated therein that Edris, having ascended to heaven after the termination of the eighty-second year of his life, obtained an exalted place; but Allah knows best.