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Devil worship

Chapter 10: CHAPTER IV
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A scholarly translation and critical study presents an Arabic manuscript of Yezidi sacred literature, featuring a brief Kitāb al-Jilwah attributed to Šeiḫ ‘Adî and a larger Maṣḥaf Rêš that recounts creation in seven days, the emergence of angelic rulers, Adam and Eve traditions, and regulations on food, marriage, and festivals. The analytical section explores the sect's religious origins and myths, surveys Christian, Muslim, and Western interpretations, and explicates central doctrines including the community's conception of God, the elevated figure Melek Ṭâʾûs and other saintly personages. Ritual practice, sacraments, sacerdotal orders, social customs, tribal distribution, persecution, and appendixes of prayers, poems, and administrative petitions complete the work.

CHAPTER IV

I will not give my rights to other gods. I have allowed the creation of four substances, four times, and four corners; because they are necessary things for creatures. The books of Jews, Christians, and Moslems, as of those who are without, accept in a sense, i. e., so far as they agree with, and conform to, my statutes. Whatsoever is contrary to these they have altered; do not accept it. Three things are against me, and I hate three things. But those who keep my secrets shall receive the fulfilment of my promises. Those who suffer for my sake I will surely reward in one of the worlds. It is my desire that all my followers shall unite in a bond of unity, lest those who are without prevail against them. Now, then, all ye who have followed my commandments and my teachings, reject all the teachings and sayings of such as are without. I have not taught these teachings, nor do they proceed from me. Do not mention my name nor my attributes, lest ye regret it; for ye do not know what those who are without may do.