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Fariduddin Attar: (d1229) Tadhkaratul-auliya (Memoirs of Saints)
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Taken from: Selections from Fariduddin Attar's Tadhkaratul-auliya, Or, Memoirs of Saints - Farid al-Din Attar, Bankey Behari
Once Bayazid started on a pilgrimage to Mecca. In the course of the journey he
met a pilgrim from Zanj who told him, "You have left God in your native place Bistam and are proceeding on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Hearing this Bayazid returned to Bistan.