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uncultured races of Africa, who have not yet arrived at any positive form of faith, let us now, in conclusion, look at a few specimens of religious thought, emanating from those who no longer hold to any positive form of faith. I take as their representative Faizi, the brother of Abulfazl, one of that small company at the Court of the Emperor Akbar, who, after a comparative study of the religions of the world, had renounced the religion of Mohammad, and for whom, as we shall see1, the orthodox Badáoní could not invent invective strong enough to express his horror. Faizi was one of those men whom their contemporaries call heretics and blasphemers, but whom posterity often calls saints and martyrs, the salt of the earth, the light of the world; a man of real devotion, real love for his fellow-creatures, real faith in God, the Unknown God, whom we ignorantly worship, whom no human thought and no human language can declare, and whose altar,-the same that St. Paul saw at Athens-will remain standing for ever in the hearts of all true believers.
LECTURE IV.
'Take Faizi's Díwán to bear witness to the wonderful speeches of a free-thinker who belongs to a thousand sects.
I have become dust, but from the odour of my grave, people shall know that man rises from such. dust.
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"They may know Faizi's 2 end from the beginning: without an equal he goes from the world, and without an equal he rises.
'In the assembly of the day of resurrection, when past things shall be forgiven, the sins of the Ka'bah
1 See p. 218.
2 Faizi means also the heart.
