[P.327] APPENDIX III.[FN#1]

SPECIMEN OF A MURSHID'S DIPLOMA, IN THE KADIRI ORDER OF THE MYSTIC CRAFT AL-TASAWWUF.

[ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: Footnote 1 gives a description of the original manuscript. In Burton’s book, the text is presented as follows: - Firstly, the section of text beginning “This is the tree…” and ending with the lines “Amen.”, “A.”, presented as a triangle, with each line centred on the page. - Below this, the section of text “There is no god but Allah…a thing to Allah.”, centred, and enclosed in a circle. - Below that, the section of text “Sayyid A…of C.”, centred, and enclosed in a horizontal oval. - The line “And of him…we beg aid.”, in smaller type. - All the following lines are enclosed in a box filling most of each page, with a horizontal rule separating the lines of text. Each line fills the width of the box neatly, except for the last four lines (beginning “It is finished.”), which are centred. - Footnotes are presented, in smaller type than usual, at the outside edge of the page in which the reference occurs, and (as much as possible) level with the reference. - The placement of line breaks in the main body of this Appendix has been preserved from the original (book) text. ]

THIS is the tree whose root is firm, and whose branches are spreading, and whose shade is perpetual: and the bearer is a good man— we beg of Allah to grant him purity of intention by the power of him upon whom Revelation descended and In- spiration!

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