One day Khyzyr, the teacher of Moses, addressed humanity with a warning.
“The day will come,” he said, “when all the water in the world, except that which will be specially collected, will disappear.” Then another water will appear to replace it, and people will go crazy over it.
Only one person understood the meaning of these words. He collected more water and hid it in a safe place. Then he began to wait for the water to change. On the predicted day, all the rivers dried up, the wells dried up, and that man, retreating to his refuge, began to drink from his reserves. But some time passed, and he saw that the rivers had resumed their flow; and then he went down to the other sons of men and found that they spoke and thought completely differently than before, that what they had been warned about had happened to them, but they did not remember it. When he tried to talk to them, he realized that they took him for a madman, showing him hostility or compassion, but not understanding. At first he did not touch the new water, returning every day to his supplies. However, in the end, he decided to drink new water from now on - because the behavior and thinking that distinguished him from the rest made his life unbearably lonely. He drank the new water and became the same as everyone else. And he completely forgot about his supply of other water. The people around him looked at him as if he were crazy, who had miraculously recovered from his madness.
This legend has been repeatedly associated with Dhu-n-Nun al-Misri, an Egyptian who died in 860 and is considered its author. It is also believed that this tale is associated with at least one form of the brotherhood of free masons. In any case, Dhu-n-Nun is the earliest figure in the history of the dervishes of the Cassiriya order, which, as Western scholars have often pointed out, bore a striking resemblance to the Freemasonry. It is believed that Zu-n-Nun revealed the meaning of Pharaonic hieroglyphs. This version of the story is attributed to Said Sabir Ali Shah, a saint of the Chishtiyya order, who died in 1818. Idris Shah
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