Islamism by the fondly and impiously-cherished memory of the old
Guebre kings and heroes, beauties, bards and sages. Hence the
mention of Zal and his son Rostam; of Cyrus and of the
Jam-i-Jamshid, which may be translated either grail (cup) or
mirror: it showed the whole world within its rim; and hence it
was called Jam-i-Jehan-numa (universe-exposing). The contemptuous
expressions about the diet of camel's milk and the meat of the
Susmar, or green lizard, are evidently quoted from Firdausi's
famous lines beginning:--

Arab-ra be-jai rasid'est kar.

The Haji is severe upon those who make of the Deity a
Khwan-i-yaghma (or tray of plunder) as the Persians phrase it. He
looks upon the shepherds as men,

--Who rob the sheep themselves to clothe.

So Schopenhauer (Leben, etc., by Wilhelm Gewinner) furiously
shows how the "English nation ought to treat that set of
hypocrites, imposters and money-graspers, the clergy, that
annually devours 3,500,000 pounds."

The Haji broadly asserts that there is no Good and no Evil in the
absolute sense as man has made them. Here he is one with Pope:--

And spite of pride, in erring nature's spite
One truth is clear--whatever is, is right.

Unfortunately the converse is just as true:--whatever is, is