The Kasdah of Hj Abd ElYezd Author:Richard Burton The Author, a Sufi mystic, asserts that Happiness and Misery are equally divided and distributed in the world. He makes Self-cultivation, with due regard to others, the sole and sufficient object of human life.He suggests that the affections, the sympathies, and the "divine gift of Pity" are man-s highest enjoyments. He advocates suspension of j... more »udgment, with a proper suspicion of "Facts, the idlest of superstitions." Finally, although destructive to appearance, he is essentially reconstructive.« less