As for what the Indian sages recorded and wrote on the Golden Tablet—protecting, concealing, and hiding it from the common people and the rabble—they recorded that people worshiped the Sun before the Lord of the House appeared. They built a dome for Sun worship and called it the Dome of Time (Qubbat al-Zamān); they worshiped the Sun from it for a thousand years. When the thousand years ended, one would appear to the people to turn them away from Sun worship and demolish the dome. The number of domes built and from which the Sun was worshiped was eighty domes, in each of which the Sun was worshiped for a thousand years.

Then, every thousand years, a Person would appear from atop the Encompassing Mountain with a face that made the horizon glow. The moment he appeared, people would rush to him. In these lands, there was a path connected to the Encompassing Mountain; its beginning was at the end of our lands adjacent to the wilderness, and its end reached the Encompassing Mountain. In our time, it is a desert that cannot be trodden. They recorded that it is a desert four months' distance in length and the same in width. To the south are the mountains of Serendib (Sri Lanka) and the Great Sea, which acts as a barrier between them and the lands of the People; the mountains and the sea are to the north and south.

These lands had many pavilions, cities, and estates, intersected by rivers and intertwined with orchards and trees. They were heavily populated, with many livestock and sheep; no place therein was uninhabited. Their inhabitants and kings rode horses in great numbers; they possessed intense might, youths, and slaves. They were more numerous than us and longer-lived. Our kings used to dread them, fear them, and beware of them out of fear of their might. They were tyrants who observed toward no one any bond or covenant, nor did they respect any sanctity.

The first manifestation of the Person who turned people away from Sun worship was from them. His first appearance to them was from atop the Encompassing Mountain at the known time. They used to watch for his time and had made it a festival for themselves. The moment he appeared