[127]. A full account of Báyazíd’s ascension is given in the Tadhkirat al-Awliyá, i, 172 ff.
[128]. See Kor. ii, 96 ff.
[129]. Nafaḥát, No. 201.
[130]. For the distinction between ṣifát-i dhát and ṣifát-i fi`l see Dozy, Supplément, ii, 810.
[131]. Here the author illustrates the meaning of “union” and “separation” by the action of Muḥammad when he threw gravel in the eyes of the unbelievers at Badr, and by that of David when he slew Goliath. See p. [185] supra.
[132]. The last words are corrupt and unmetrical in all the texts. I have found the true reading, من الأَحْشآءِ دانى, in a MS. of the Kitáb al-Luma` by Abú Naṣr al-Sarráj, which has recently come into the possession of Mr. A. G. Ellis.
[133]. Nafaḥát, No. 188.
[134]. “The Book of Exposition for Persons of Intuition.”
[135]. “The Sea of Hearts.”