Epilogue

The Glory of the Shia World, by P. M. Sykes and Khan Bahadur Ahmad din Khan, [1910], at sacred-texts.com

p. 278

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THE SEAL OF THE IMAM RIZA

The inscription on the seal runs as follows:—

p. 279

EPILOGUE

I was meditating how to write the date of this work
    In hidden but complete verse,
When Hatif (the Good Angel) put out his head and sang,
    "This book of travel has been speedily completed." ¹

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Footnotes

279:1 No Persian work can be concluded without its date being shown in a verse, each letter of which possesses a numerical value. In the present instance, the number is A.H. 1331; but by a poetical conceit, the H in Hatif is "put out" or deducted, making A.H. 1326 (1908) which is the year in which the book was completed. The Persian text runs as follows: 

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Persian Epigram