1. Know it verily that I (the author, Vali bin Yusuf (RZ)) have not heard from any of the migrant-companions of Imam Mahdi (AS) that he had decreed fixed periodical income (tay'in) as a gradable curse, and this servant (the author) has not heard any of the honoured companions (of the Imam) asking anybody to (receive and) eat (out of it), because one who receives and eats out of fixed periodical income is a cursed person.

2. It is narrated that Bandagi Miyan Shah Ni'mat (RZ) asked Bandagi Miyan Syed Khundmir (RZ) a number of times to prohibit his companions from acting against (the practice of) Imam Mahdi (AS). In reply Bandagi Miyan Syed Khundmir (RZ) said; "This servant (of Allah) is not a police officer (kotwal). The duty of this servant is to explain (the meaning of) the Quran." If somebody were to get a pension from some where and he asked Bandagi Miyan Syed Khundmir (RZ): "If your honoured self were to permit me, I would go and bring it." Bandagi Miyan Syed Khundmir (RZ) used to permit him. Further, if anybody were to ask Imam Mahdi (AS) or his companions if he should give up fixed periodical income (tay'in), they used to say: "Seek Allah," but every time in their sermons they used to say that fixed periodical income was cursed (la'in); pensioners always used to curse themselves. Even the brothers of the daira used very often to curse the pensioners and the latter did not take such comments amiss.

3. Further, Imam Mahdi (AS) has said that fixed periodical income is cursed. If somebody were to say that some of the companions of the Imam had fixed periodical income; Miyan Yusuf Sohait and Miyan Taj Mahammad (RZ) used it, yet Imam Mahdi (AS) gave them glad tidings; their invitations to feasting with them were accepted (by the Imam) and he went to their houses many times; in reply, I (the author) would say that this should not be taken as a precedent (hujjat) because whatever the Imam (AS) did and wherever he went, he did so in accordance with the commands of Allah. Hence, one should not take as an argument the instances of Miyan Yusuf Sohait, Miyan Taj Muhammad, King Negus of Abyssenia, Sultan Ghyasuddin of Mando and Sultan Mahmood of Gujarat, about whom there were some stories about women and girls. Imam Mahdi (AS) gave them glad tidings in accordance with the commands of Allah and sent his companions to them.

COUPLET:
If you are from me and you are in Yemen, you are near me/
And if you are not from me and you are with me, even then you are in Yemen.

4. It is narrated that, at the Bhelot village, a mullah brought thirty tinkas (local currency) and offered it to Bandagi Miran Syed Mahmood (RZ), who accepted it. A month later, the same person brought another thirty tinkas and offered them to Bandagi Miran, who again accepted it. Another month later, he brought the same amount, but Bandagi Miran refused to receive the amount and said: "Probably, Fateh Khan imposes a fixed periodical income for us."

5. Most of the indigent (fuqara) had given up fixed periodical incomes, and those who did not have such incomes, did not begin receiving them. One or two persons recite some instances that the indigents had begun taking fixed periodical incomes, but they were rare cases; and rare cases are (as good as) extinct. All the indigents have called receiving fixed periodical income as shirk (assigning partners to Allah).

6. An instance has been narrated: A faqir (indigent) followed the Imam at a mosque to say his mid-afternoon ('Asr) prayers. After the prayers, the imam asked the dervish: "Where have you come from?" The faqir said: "From the land of Allah." The imam asked: "Where do you get your food from?" The dervish said: " From the house of Allah." The imam said: "There must be some (tangible ) source." The faqir immediately reiterated his prayers. The imam asked: " What (prayers) did you say after the ' Asr prayers?" The dervish said: "The 'Asr prayers." The imam said: "Prophet Muhammad (SLM) has said: "Say your prayers behind (in the leadership of) any good or bad (person)." The dervish said: "That is true, but he has not asked (us) to say our prayers behind and polytheist (mushrik), and it is not permitted to say our prayers behind a mushrik. Hence, I reiterated my prayers. You have no belief in Allah. Allah says: "There is nothing that moveth on earth, the nourishment of which doth not depend on Allah..." (S. 11 : 6 SAL)

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