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most dagnerous enemies of the throne and the altar, as hardened
criminals, and lawless atheists ; and which delivered them over to
the avenging arm of justice, rather in open war or as outlaws, as
■ infidels, separatists, and rebels, whom to slay was a law of Islamism.
The Imam Ghasali, one of the first moralists of Islam, and most
celebrated Persian teachers of ethics, wrote a treatise, peculiarly
directed against the adherents of the esoteric doctrine, entitled, On
the folly of the supporters of the doctrine of Indifference, that is the
impious (Mulahid) whom may God condemn. In that entitled
Pearls of the Felw is, a celebrated collection of legal decisions the
sect of the impious'(MvMlvid) of Ivuhistan, were condemned accord-
ding to the ancient sentences of the Imams ; Ebi Jussuf and Moham-
med, pronounced against the Karmathites, and their lives and goods
given as free prey, to all the Moslemiu. In the " Confluence'
(Mullabath) and the " treasures of the Fetioas" (Khasanetol Fetavi)
even the repentance of Mulhad, or the impious, is rejected as entirely
invalid and impossible, if they have even exercised the office of Dai or
missionary, and their execution commanded as legal, even though
they become converts and wish to abjure their errors; because perjury
itself was one of the maxims and no recovery could be expected from
libertine atheists. Thus, the ininds of both parties were mutually
embittered, governments and the order were at open war, and heads
fell a rich harvest to the assassins' dagger, and the executioner's
sword.'.'
Then my Lord, at the end of Von Hammer's History of the Assas-
sins, there is a short statement which at all events connects the
Ismailies with the present time. It is this :—
" Remains of the Ismailites still exist, both in Persia and Syria,
but merely as one of the many sects and heresies of Islamism, without
any claim to power, without the means of obtaining their former
importance, of which they seem, in fact to have lost all remembrance.
The policy of the secret state-subverting doctrine of the first lodge of
Ismailites, and the murderous tactics of the Assassins, are equally
foreign to them. Their writings are a shapeless mixture of Ismailite
and Christian traditions, glossed over, with the ravings of the mystic
theology. Their places of abode are, both in Persia and Syria, those
of their forefathers, in the mountains of Irak and at the fort of
Antilebanon.
criminals, and lawless atheists ; and which delivered them over to
the avenging arm of justice, rather in open war or as outlaws, as
■ infidels, separatists, and rebels, whom to slay was a law of Islamism.
The Imam Ghasali, one of the first moralists of Islam, and most
celebrated Persian teachers of ethics, wrote a treatise, peculiarly
directed against the adherents of the esoteric doctrine, entitled, On
the folly of the supporters of the doctrine of Indifference, that is the
impious (Mulahid) whom may God condemn. In that entitled
Pearls of the Felw is, a celebrated collection of legal decisions the
sect of the impious'(MvMlvid) of Ivuhistan, were condemned accord-
ding to the ancient sentences of the Imams ; Ebi Jussuf and Moham-
med, pronounced against the Karmathites, and their lives and goods
given as free prey, to all the Moslemiu. In the " Confluence'
(Mullabath) and the " treasures of the Fetioas" (Khasanetol Fetavi)
even the repentance of Mulhad, or the impious, is rejected as entirely
invalid and impossible, if they have even exercised the office of Dai or
missionary, and their execution commanded as legal, even though
they become converts and wish to abjure their errors; because perjury
itself was one of the maxims and no recovery could be expected from
libertine atheists. Thus, the ininds of both parties were mutually
embittered, governments and the order were at open war, and heads
fell a rich harvest to the assassins' dagger, and the executioner's
sword.'.'
Then my Lord, at the end of Von Hammer's History of the Assas-
sins, there is a short statement which at all events connects the
Ismailies with the present time. It is this :—
" Remains of the Ismailites still exist, both in Persia and Syria,
but merely as one of the many sects and heresies of Islamism, without
any claim to power, without the means of obtaining their former
importance, of which they seem, in fact to have lost all remembrance.
The policy of the secret state-subverting doctrine of the first lodge of
Ismailites, and the murderous tactics of the Assassins, are equally
foreign to them. Their writings are a shapeless mixture of Ismailite
and Christian traditions, glossed over, with the ravings of the mystic
theology. Their places of abode are, both in Persia and Syria, those
of their forefathers, in the mountains of Irak and at the fort of
Antilebanon.