"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٤‎١‎٠] (١٧٨٢/١٥٦٥)

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Najaf benefactions. It is the fund thus provided for disbursement at the
Holy Cities which has since come to be known as the Oudh Bequest.
The clause of the Agreement relating to the Oudh Bequest was, in
the part sealed by the King of Oudh, fully, explicitly, and unambiguous
worded. There the passage ran :
miqd5r-i-baqi-i-mazbQr-ra dQ hissah kardah nisf ba-Najaf-i -Ashraf va nisf
ba-Karbala-i-M u'alla nizd-i-Mnjtahidan i-mujayir-i-An-Astan-i-malaik-pashan mi-
rasanidah bSshand ki mushar-;laihim az taraf-i-In-Janib binabar-i-kasb-i-sawSb ba-
arb5b-i-istihqaq taqsim mi-kardah bashand.
This may bo translated : they (i.e., the Honourable East India Company),
havir.g divided tho aforesaid remaining sum into two parts, shall continue to transmit
hnlf to Najaf the Noble and half to Karbala the Sublime, to the Mujtahids resident
at the angel-guarded Threshold, so that the said Mujiahids may continue to distribato
it to deserving persons on our behalf, for the acquirement of religious merit.
In the part of the Agreement signed by Mr. Ricketts the correspond
ing clause was worded thus :
va hamah mushaharah baqimand nisf ba-Najaf-i-Ashraf va nisf ba-Karbala-i-
MuS'lla nizd-i-Mujtahidan-i-mujavir-i-An-Ascan abad m muabbadan az taraf-i-Badghah-
i -zi -jah-i-mu'azzam-ilaihi rasanidah khahad shud ki masubBt-i-5n aid-i-hal-i.
farkhundah-fal-i-Janab-i-Badshah gardad.
This version may be rendered in English thus :
and^the whole remaining monthly allowance shall be transmitted, half to
Najaf the ^voble and half to Karbala Sublime, to the Mujtahids residing at the
Thieshold, eternally, on behalf of the glorious King aforesaid, in order that the
relig ous benefits thereof may accrue to the auspicious condition of His Majesty the
King.
In the bilingual document by means of which the Governor-General
ratified the Agreement, the Persian text was exactly as in the part of the
Agreement signed by Mr. Hicketts except that the omission of a stroke
over a Persian letter made the wording ungrammatical and left room
for a, doubt whether the proper payees were the " Mujtahidan-i-mujavir-i-
An-Astan that is " the Mujtahids residing at the Threshold " or
the " Mujtahidan (va) Mujaviran-i-Astanthat is "the Mujtahids
(and) Mujavirs of the Threshold
The term Mujtahid " } it may be explained, includes only Shi'ah
doctors of theology of the highest class ; while the word " Mujavir ^
would mean persons officially connected with the holy shrines, perhaps
even persons who had settled at or near them for religious reasons.