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 it is called Seulaweuët or Ratéb inòng (LXXV), contains a mystic commentary on the somewhat obscure verse of the Qurān 24: 35. This versified treatise deals in brief with sundry celestial and primeval matters, its doctrines being derived from those circles of pantheistic mystics, who were once represented in Acheh by the heretic Hamzah Pansuri and who won over to their teaching of the unity of God and the world a large majority of the people throughout the whole Indian Archipelago.

The three succeeding poems chiefly serve the purpose of recommending certain definite Arabic prayers. All manner of blessings, it is said, will fall upon the head of him who recites or wears them as an amulet upon his person.

Ōteubahōy rōlam (LXXVI) appeared after his death in a state of complete bliss to a man in a dream, and told him that he owed his salvation to the continual recitation of a certain Arabic formulary.

It was revealed to Édeurih Khōlani (LXXVII) by Mohammed in a vision, that the prophet Khòylé (Ach. pronunciation of Khidhir, from the Arab. Khidhr) owed his long life and to some extent even his salvation to the multiplied repetition of certain passages from the Qurān.

The Hayaké tujōh (LXXVIII) or seven haikals are given by Mohammad to his companions as an infallible charm, which is inscribed upon the throne of Allah, and which guards its possessors against all evils, brings them every blessing and enables them to hurl their enemies to destruction.

Palilat uròë Achura (LXXIX).

This poem illustrates in some 125 verses the surpassing merit (palilat, Arab. ) of the day Achura, the 10$th$ of the month Muḥarram, by a recapitulation of various important events in the lives of certain prophets (Adam, Ibrahim, Yaʾḳub, Musa, Isa (Jesus), Ayyub, Yusuf, Dawôt (David), Sulòyman and Junus) which are stated to have occurred