{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_mes_mes08_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_mes_mes08_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_mes_mes08_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/mes/mes08.htm","summary":"This is a hagiographic excerpt from *The Acts of the Adepts*, a collection of biographical accounts of Sufi saints associated with the 13th-century mystic Jelal-ud-Din Rumi, translated from Persian by James Redhouse in 1881. The passage focuses on Sheykh Salahu-'d-Din Feridun, a childhood fellow-student of Rumi's who became a goldbeater in poverty, later rose to serve as Rumi's appointed deputy in leading and instructing his disciples, and held that role for ten years. A central anecdote illustrates the supernatural perception attributed to Sufi saints: when a king devised a test \u2014 sealing a young snake in a gold box and presenting it as a mysterious packet from the Byzantine emperor \u2014 Feridun exposed the ruse entirely, naming the contents and rebuking the king's deceit, which prompted the king to become a disciple on the spot. The passage also records that Feridun's daughter Fatima married Rumi's son Sultan Veled, was regarded by Rumi with deep personal affection, and was herself venerated as a saint known for fasting, vigils, and charity. The text's distinctively devotional character treats miraculous knowledge and angelic presence at weddings as straightforward historical fact, reflecting the hagiographic conventions of classical Persian Sufi biography.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Mesnavi and The Acts of the Adepts: The Acts of the A...","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":621}