Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 66 of 142
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 66: what you’re looking at
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# This page from a Victorian biography or historical narrative contains running prose describing formative childhood experiences of someone named Jámi. The text recounts two separate encounters: first, when five-year-old Jámi received a nosegay from a dying Sheikh in 1419, and second, when Maulana Fakhruddin Loristani taught him letters and inspired his religious devotion. The passage emphasizes spiritual awakening and the lasting impact of these early meetings on Jámi's later religious commitment to Dervish practice. The text breaks off mid-sentence, continuing the narrative.
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began to show the Metal, and take the Stamp that distinguished him through Life. In 1419, a famous Sheikh, Khwajah Mohammed Parsa, then in the last Year of his Life, was being carried through Jam. ‘“T was not then Five Years old,” says J Ami, “and my Father, who with his Friends went forth to salute him, had me carried on the Shoulders of one of the Family and set down before the Litter of the Sheikh, who gave a Nosegay into my hand. Sixty Years have passed, and methinks I now see before me the bright Image of the Holy Man, and feel the Blessing of his Aspect, from which I date my after Devotion to that Brotherhood in which I hope to be enrolled.”’ So again, when Maulana Fakhruddin Loristani had alighted at his Mother’s house—“ I was then so little that he set me upon his Knee, and with his Fingers drawing the Letters of ‘ Ani’ and ‘ Omar’ in the Air, laughed with delight to hear me spell them. He also by his Goodness sowed in my Heart the Seed of his Devotion, which has grown to Increase within me—in which I hope to live, and in which to die. Oh God! Dervish let me live, and Dervish die; and in the Company of the Dervish do Thou quicken me to life again !” | Jami first went to a School at Herat; and after- CORNICLOO