aught him
all the _Nouns_, and so improv'd him by degrees, that he could speak in
a very short time.

Sec. 109. Then _Asal_ began to enquire of him concerning his way of Living,
and from whence he came into that Island? And _Hai Ebn Yokdhan_ told
him, that he knew nothing of his own Original, nor any Father or Mother
that he had, but only that _Roe_ which brought him up. Then he describ'd
to him his manner of Living, from first to last, and by what degrees he
advanc'd in Knowledge, till he attain'd the _Union with God_. When
_Asal_ heard him give an Account of those Truths, and those Essences
which are separate from the Sensible World, and which have the Knowledge
of that TRUE ONE, (whose Name be prais'd); and heard him give an account
of the Essence of that TRUE ONE, and describe, as far as was possible,
what he witness'd (when he had attain'd to that Union) of the Joys of
those who are near united to God, and the Torments of those who are
separated from him. He made no doubt but that all those things which are
contain'd in the Law of God [_i.e._ the _Alcoran_] concerning his
Command, his Angels, Books and Messengers, the Day of Judgment, Paradise
and Hell, were Resemblances of what _Hai Ebn Yokdhan_ had seen; and the
Eyes of his Understanding were open'd, and he found that the _Original_
and the _Copy_[28] did exactly agree together. And the ways of Mystical
Interpretation became easie to him, and there appeared nothing difficult
to him in those Precepts which he had receiv'd, but all was clear; nor
any thing shut up, but all was open; nor any thing profound, but all was
plain. By this means his intellectual Faculty grew strong and vigorous,
and he look'd upon _Hai Ebn Yokdhan_ with Admiration and Respect, and
assur'd himself that he was one of the Saints of God, _which have no
Fear upon them, neither shall they suffer Pain_. Upon which he address'd
himself to wait upon him, and imitate him, and to follow his Direction
in the Performance of such Works as he had occasion to make use of;
namely, those legal ones which he had formerly learn'd from his own
Sect.

Sec. 110. Then _Hai Ebn Yokdhan_ began to enquire of him concerning his
Condition and manner of living, and _Asal_ gave him an account of the
Island from whence he came, and what manner of People inhabited it, and
what sort of Life they led before that religious Sect, which we
mention'd, came among them, and how it was now, since the coming of that
Sect. He als