1 LIBERTINE SECT OF MOOLLAH ZUHKEE. 209
2 be nfldifld an iptttment where «iglik penm wcw^aeeted. tlliegr
3 MtiniH-tH twupoited and discndered by thmr own nflectbiM, «aiid
4 tbeir ooontenaiioeft bene the tnaiks o£ impintKML Hie Dervue'tikace
5 ioimod miwtfrfile Akig% apdacquirod moie knowledge od themoflt
6 nibliine uelijecia from a momeDt's intercourse with thow'aageiy dun
7 eould ha^ been gained by yean of kborious study.
8 - Aoother sect, which is aometimes confounded with the Soolboa> :ia
9 one which bears the name of Moollah Zukkee, who was its great
10 patron in Gaubul. Its followers hold, that all the prophets were im-
11 postors, and all revelation an invention. They seem very doubtful of
12 the truth of a future stntc. and even of the bein^ of a God. Their
13 tenets appnar to be vcrv ancit iit. and are prcrisfly those of the old
14 • Persian poet Kheioom, whose works exhibit such specimens of im-
15 piety, as probably never were equalled in any other language.
16 Kheioom dwells particularly on the existence of evil, and taxes the
17 Supieiiiu Being with the iuLruiiuction of it, in terms which can
18 scarcely be believed. The Soofees have uuaccountably prised tins
19 writer into their service, they explain away some of his blasphemies
20 by forced interpretadona, and others they represent aa iimooeiit frae^
21 doma and feproacfaea, aedi aa -e Um/t may pour out i^^ainat hia be-
22 loved. The ftkUoweia of Moollah Zokkee are said to take the fidl
23 advHita0e of iheir feleaaefiom tbeftar of heU, and the awe of «
24 SopieBie Bemgf and to be the moat diaaelute -and unprincipled pnifli-
25 gatea In the Mngdonu Thi&a opiniona, nevertheleaa, are chariahed
26 in aeeret, and ace aaid to be veiy pievalent among the licentioaa
27 nobleaof the court of Shauh Miahmood.
28 The Rouahnmeea aect made e greek noiae among the Afghauns in
29 the nzteenth century ; bat it is now ehnost cKtinot It wea ftunded
30 in the reign of the 'Emperor Acbar, by Bauyazei d Ansauree, who
31 wntB called by his enemies the Peeree Taureek (or Apostle of Dark*
32 ness), in derision of the title of Peeree Roushen (or Apostle of
33 ii^t), which he had himself assumed. He held the same tenet.«?
34 widi the Soofees, but aa he added a belief in the traasmigratiofi oH
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