The Scented Garden

114 Ecstasy to content the mystic, without scientific, enquiry into its nature. Pantheism. 4. Taken by a parallel construction to Maker- Made. The absurdity is not so glaring in Persian, owing to the system of “ modes ” by which from each root is extracted a great number of deriva- tives, according to fixed rules. The Satire is of course against those who think that the difficulty of self-created matter is overcome by postulating a self-created God. Thus [Persian text] Jade might become [Persian text] a maker of Jade, were only Jade a verbal root. As [Persian text] slayer from the root [Persian text] to slay. 5. The Takhallus being absent from this Ghazal, it is either spurious or unfinished ; or else affords us a ground for rejecting those Ghazals which but for the Takhallus would be declared not to be au- thentic. This latter view has guided us to some extent in this edition. (There are altogether some 80 or 100 extant Ghazals of Abdullah ; fortunately in the keyletter we have a certain check on this particular series. Major Lutiy wrote his note under the idea of issuing the whole in a single vo- lume. Ed.)