Is not every thing, except God vain?
Aisha, his favorite consort, declares in the traditions, that he hated verses, and never recited one correctly. One day he attempted to quote the known verse of an Arabian poet:
The days bring to thee news that thou dost not know;
And some man brings news the spirit of which he doth not understand.
But he altered somewhat the order of the last words. “Prophet of God!” said Abu bekr, “the verse runs not so.” Muhammed answered: “I am no poet.”—(Gemäldesaal Mosl. Herrscher, Iter Band, Seite 230.)
[152] छलन chhalana, “tricking, deceiving.”
[153] Shamsiyah, “the sun’s course, ecliptic,” is the title of a treatise composed upon logic by Nagmeddin Ali Ben Omar al Kazvíní, who was a disciple of Nusir-eddin al-Túsí. The said work is dedicated to Khogiah Shams-eddîn Muhammed, perhaps one of the twelve princes called Sarbedarian, who reigned thirty-five years in the town of Sebzvar, in Khorassan, and in other places which they had conquered.—(Herbelot.)
[154] Maibed is a town of Persia, the native place of Kází Mir Hossaín Ibn Mâyin eddin, above-mentioned. He is one of the commentators of the work above quoted, which is divided into three parts, comprising logic, physiology, and theology, and was composed by the Shaikh Asir eddin Mifazzel, son of Omar al Abheri. The author died in the year of the Hejira 660 (A. D. 1261).
[155] The author of Hikmet al âin was Najem eddin Abu ’l Hassan Ali, son of Muhammed, surnamed Dabiran al Katebí al Kazvíni. He was a disciple of the celebrated Nasir-eddin Tusi, and died in the year of the Hejira 675 (A. D. 1276).
[156] We find, in the Bibliographical Dictionary of Haji Khalfa, several titles of books beginning by the word Tajerid.