Book Title: Indian Antiquary Vol 03
Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

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________________ 40 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [FEBRUARY, 1874. إيمانا مع إيمانهم والله جنود السموات والأرض وكان الله عليم حكيمة ليدخل المؤمنين والمومنات جنات تجري من تيها الأنهار خالدين فيها و يكفر عن سياتهم و كان ذلك عند الله نوزا عظيمة وعذب المنافقين والمحافظات والمشركين والشركات انلاین بانه فى السري عليهم دائرة السوء و قضب ތް މޫތީފަޑި ބައިދީ الله ގެ މަ ޤަތް މަ د الله جنود الات و الارضي و كان له ميزة مبشرة و نذيرة و متوا حكيمة انا ارسلى شاهدة بالله ورسوله Comited و تعزرد و تقرر و تبحرة التقى و حسن القى و العسكري الخلف العالم theo as a witness and preacher of glad tidings, and a warner that they may believe in God [and his apostle*], and may assist him, and revere him, and praise him morning and evening." The outside of the cupt is ornamented on the bottom with three meaningless magio squares containing a few arithmetical numbers and letters of the alphabet. The circle on the border is also a senseless repetition of so-called talismanic symbols consisting of a number of letters, to impose on ignorant persons, just like the pretended writing between the twelve signs of the zodiac, which are interesting. The only writing consists in the enumeration of the Emâms, as follows : اللهم صل على محمد المصطفى و علی المرتضی و حسن الرضا و حسين الشهيد بكربلا و ملی زین العابدين و محمد الباقر و جعفر العادق و موسی موسی الرضا و محمد بن على الكاظم و علی بن الإمام محمد المهدی بكرة و أصيلة "In the name of God, the merciful, the clement! Verily we have granted thee a manifest victory, that God may forgive thee thy past and thy future sing, and may complete His favour on thee and direct thee on the right way, and that God may assist thee with a glorious assistance. It is He who hath sent down tranquillity into the hearts of Believers, to increase their Fah--and God's are the hosts of heaven and of earth, and God is knowing and wise--that He may lead the male and female Believers into gardens, beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for ever, and may expiate their evil deeds from them--and this will be great felicity with God; and that he may punish the male and female hypocrites, with the male and female polytheists, who conopive an evil idea of God. They shall experience a turn of ill fortune; and God shall be angry with them, and shall curse them, and hath prepared hell for them, and an ill journey will it be! God's are the hosts of heaven and of earth; and God is Mighty! Wise! Verily we have sent O God! bless Muhammad the chosen, A'ly the approved and Hasan al-rezâ, and Husayn the martyr of Karbella, and A'ly Zain-al'akbedyn, and Muhammad al-baker and J'afer alşâdek, and Musa al-Kazem and Ally Ben Mûsa al-reza and Muhammad Ben Ally al-taky and Hasan al-naky and Al-'askary the pious descendant [and] Emâm Muhammad the Mohdy." Here the twelve Emâms, the first of whom is A'ly, and the last the Mohdy, upon whom the writer invokes the blessing of God, are all enumerated, but not according to the universal belief towards the end of the list; as some of them havo not yet made their appearance in this world, and the last is to be the harbinger of the destruction thereof. This belief in the twelve Emâms, i.e. the Agna-asha Emamite reli gion, is now dominant in Persia, and has been 80 since the reign of Shah Abbas the Great. Ao cording to this religion the twelve Emâms are saints of the first degree after the prophets of the first order, and especially after Muhammad; معصوم they are all protected, innocent, and incapable of committing sin. This sect of Shiahs is also prevalent throughout India. . Omitted on the cup. + See accompanying plate.

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