SECTION I.—ON THE APPEARANCE OF THE KHALIFET OF THE ALL-JUST.

An account of the lord Khalífet, “Vicar,” of God.— The author of this book heard from Khájah Masâud, the son of Khájah Mahmúd, the son of Khájah Mirshed al hak, who was a pious master of worldly concerns, what follows: “My honored father said he had heard from his noble ancestors, that the lord of the faith and of the world will appear; but he knew not whether that lord's time was already come, or will come; meanwhile he saw him one night in a dream; when he rose from sleep, he went to the country where that august personage was born, that is on Sunday of the month Rajeb (the seventh Arabian month), in the year of the Hejira 949 (A. D. 1543), the lord Jelal eddin Akbar, the august son of Hamáyún Pádshah and of the praise-worthy Bánú Bêgam was born.” The writer of this work heard also in the year of the Hejira 1053 (A. D. 1643-4), in Lahore, from Mirzá Sháh Muham­med , surnamed Khaznín Khán, the son of shah Baigh Khán, with the surname of Khán Douran, a native of Arghún, who is said to have asked from the Naváb Azíz Kóka, surnamed Khán Aâzem, what observation he had to make upon the rumor current relative to the Lord, the inhabitant of the ninth heaven, as to his being like the Messiah? He answered: “What the mother said, is the truth.”*