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2: . Self-annihilation leads to eternal life in God the universal Noumenon, by whom all phenomena subs[...] 3: . "Raw" and "Ripe" are terms for "Men of externals" and "Men of heart" or Mystics. 4: . Alluding to the giving of the law on Mount Sinai. Koran vii. 139. 5: . All phenomenal existences (man included) are but "veils" obscuring the face of the Divine Noumen[...] 6: . So Bernard of Clairvaux. See Gulshan i Raz, I. 435.
2: . Koran xviii. 73. 3: . Koran liv. I. 4: . There is a tradition, "I know my Lord by my Lord." 5: . See Gulshan i Raz, I. 400. In the state of union self remains not. 6: . The Sufi is the "son of the time present," because he is an Energumen, or passive instrument move[...] 7: . "When its Lord appears in glory to the Mount of existence, Existence is laid low, like the dust o[...]
2: . John xiv. 26: "But the Comforter (parakletos) shall teach you all things." Mosalmans read perikly[...] 3: . Dajjal, i.e., Antichrist. Sale, Prelim. Discourse, p. 57. 4: . Said of the Seven Sleepers in the cave. Koran xviii. 17; "Knower" = the Gnostic who through ecsta[...] 5: . This was the doctrine of the Jabriyan or extreme predestinarians. 6: . i.e.. Hide not thy light (of good works or of self-denial) under a bushel. 7: . Alluding to the doctrine of the Trinity.
3: . Sweet savour, i.e., the joy of heart experienced by the offerer of prayer when his prayer is acce[...]
2: . "Laborare est orare." 3: . Koran ii. 341. 4: . "And He taught Adam the names of all things" (Koran ii. 29). 5: . The angels said, "We have no knowledge but what thou hast given us to know" (Koran ii. 30). 6: . See Gulshan i Raz, I. 543. 7: . Koran xviii. 17. 8: . See Gulshan i Raz, I. 575: The ocean of Reason is the same as what is elsewhere called the ocean [...] 9: . "Those arrows were God's, not vours" (Koran viii. 17); i.e., Man's reason proceeds from God, the [...] 10: . Alluding to the "Believer's lost camel " (Book II. Story XII., infra.). Men seek wisdom, and do n[...] 11: . The real Soul, i.e., the spirit which God "breathed into man" (Koran xv. 29). "In yourselves are [...] 12: . See Gulshan i Raz, I. 92. Mr. Mansel (Bampton Lectures, p. 49) says: "A thing can be known as tha[...] 13: . Koran vi. 103. 14: . Koran vii. 139: "He said, 'Thou shalt not see me.'" 15: . Koran ii. 151. 16: . See Gulshan i Raz, I. 645: All phenomena are every moment renewed by fresh effluxes of being from[...] 17: . See Gulshan i Raz, I. 710.
2: . So Gulshan i Raz, I. 442. 3: . The leading principle of all mysticism is that, independently of sense and reason, man possesses [...] 4: . Their wills are identified with God's will, as in the case of the saint Daquqi (infra, Book III. [...] 5: . As a sign of the last day (Koran liv. 1).
2: . See Koran xxi. 68, and Rodwell's note. 3: . This is a comment on the Hadis, "Verily Sa'd is a jealous man, and I am more jealous than he, and[...] 4: . This is a quotation from Hakim Sanai, and forms the text of the following discourse. 5: . See Gulshan i Raz, I. 140, and Omar Khayyam Quatr., 270. 6: . See Gulshan i Raz, I. 745: Frowns are the occultation of the Beloved by the veil of phenomena; sm[...] 7: . Koran xv. 23. 8: . i.e., the Logos, and First Soul, upposed to be referred to in the text: "O men, fear your Lord, w[...] 9: . i.e., in his spiritual exaltation he feels himself as the Logos, where from tho whole material cr[...]
2: . i.e., he is possessed by the Deity as an "Energumen," and the Deity works these ecstatic states i[...]
2: . Koran iii. 189. 3: . Muhammad said these words to his wife, Ayisha. 4: . Compare the ancient custom of ringing bells to still thunder. 5: . Koran lxxix. 24. Pharaoh's boast. 6: . The tablet on which God writes His eternal decrees. 7: . Koran ii. 29. 8: . Koran lxxxix. 29. 9: . The Logos, the first of created beings, was afterwards embodied in Adam, the "Perfect Man," or Mi[...] 10: . He is the "son of the time present and instant," as said above. 11: . Koran li. 9.
2: . See Koran xviii. 77 for the story of Moses and Khizr. It is also given in Parnell's 'Hermit.' 3: . Koran xlviii. 10.
2: . Cp. "Religio Medici," Sect. 35: "Herein is divinity conformant unto philosophy, and not only gene[...] 3: . Koran vii. II.
2: . Blue turbans were considered a sign of hypocrisy (Hafiz, Ode 5).
2: . Syad Abu'l Wafa, an unlettered Kurd, found a paper with the words Bismillah upon it, and, after s[...]
2: . Koran ii. 2. 3: . i.e., the Prophet. 4: . Koran xviii. 110. 5: . Koran xx. 4. 6: . i.e., the vestibule of the house. 7: . Koran xxxvi. 53.
2: . Koran ii, 100. 3: . Alluding to the "water of life" in the land of darkness discovered by Khizr. 4: . Koran iii. 6.
2: . The descending node of the moon (see Gulshan i Raz, I. 233).
2: . Koran vi. 76: "And when the night overshadowed Abraham, he beheld a star, and he said, 'This is m[...] 3: . Mansur Hallaj, a celebrated Sufi who was put to death at Bagdad in 309 A.H. for using these words[...] 4: . i.e., unity is made to appear as plurality (see Gulshan i Raz, I. 710). 5: . See Gulshan i Raz, I. 104. 6: . The Turkish commentator translates thus. The Lucknow copy reads Ba sati for Ma sti. 7: . Koran xi 53. 8: . Abu Bakr made over all his goods to the Prophet in aid of the expedition to Syria.
3: . cf. Gulshan i Raz, p. 86. 4: . This couplet exercises both the Turkish and the Lucknow commentators. 5: . i.e., annihilation of self and of all phenomenal being, regarding self as naught in the presence [...]
3: . Koran xxiv. 43. The prophetic inspiration is likened to a light handed on from one to another. 4: . Koran xxi. 80. 5: . Koran lxxvii. 96. 6: . Jirjis or St. George is supposed by Muhammadans to be the same person as Khizr or Elias. 7: . Zakhariah the prophet is said to have taken refuge from his persecutors in the hollow of a tree. [...] 8: . Koran liv. 1. 9: . Omar was called "The Discerner." 10: . He bore this name because he had two daughters of Muhammad as his wives. 11: . A tradition gives this title to Hasan and Hussain. 12: . Mansur Hallaj, the celebrated Sufi impaled at Bagdad. Shah or King was a title often assumed by d[...] 13: . The "way" means the Sufi doctrines. 14: . All these saints lived in the second and third centuries of the Flight. 15: . In the introduction to the Nafahatu-'l Uns, Jami says there are always 4000 saints on the earth w[...]
2: . i.e., the spirit of the Prophet Muhammad, whom the Sufis identify with the Primal Soul. 3: . Continually is creation born again in a new creation" (Gulshan i Raz, p. 66). By constant effluxe[...]
2: . Koran xxiv. 35. 3: . Freytag, Arabum Proverbia, vol. ii. pp. 379 and 418, gives two proverbs - one, "Shame is a part o[...]
2: . The doctrine of Heraclitus, that opposite states generate one another, is discussed by Jelaludin [...] 3: . An anacoluthon (see Koran i. 16). 4: . The two wings are hope and fear, both of which are needed to guide men's religious flight (see Bo[...] 5: . Koran vi. 77.
2: . A tradition. 3: . A saying of the Prophet.
2: . Koran lxxvi. 21. 3: . Koran xvii. 110. 4: . See Koran xx. 90. 5: . Koran xii. 17. 6: . Koran xviii. 17.
3: . The law defining the right course. 4: . Koran xciii. : "By the noonday brightness, and by the night when it darkeneth, thy Lord hath not [...] 5: . "O Lord, give us good in this world and good in the next, and save us from the torment of the fir[...] 6: . i.e., to annihilation of self in God, as a moth in the flame. 7: . Atarid or Mercury.
2: . Koran ix. 108. 3: . This is a proverb ascribed to Ali. It means, people are always losing wisdom and seeking it like [...] 4: . The night on which the Koran was revealed. 5: . So in the Phaedo, "Many are the wandbearers, but few the Mystics."
2: . Freytag, Arabum Proverbia, i. 628.
2: . There is a Hedis: "The Prophet loved perfumes and fair women and brightness of eyes in prayer." [...]
2: . "And when my servants ask thee concerning me then will I be nigh unto them. I will answer the cry[...]
2: . Koran xviii. 110: "Say, in sooth I am only a man like you. It hath been revealed unto me that you[...] 3: . Koran xxvii. 16: "Solomon said, O men, we have been taught the speech of birds." 4: . Koran xxvii. 44 and xxi. 80.
2: . Koran xxiii. 110: "He will say 'Be ye driven down into it, and address me not.'" 3: . Rules for the call to prayer are given in Mishkat ul Masabih i. 141. 4: . Or, "What dost thou require of me?" 5: . Koran ii. 6.
2: . Koran xxiv. 60. 3: . Koran. ix. 112.
2: . Koran ii. 96.
2: . Or "decreed, not decree" (maqzi nai qaza). I confess I do not understand the distinction. 3: . See Gulshan i Raz, I. 287. 4: . The four last couplets are omitted in the Bulaq edition.
2: . Koran vi. 77. 3: . Koran cxii. 3.
2: . Koran xviii. 23. 3: . Koran lv. 29; cp. John v. 17. 4: . Freytag, Arabum Proverbia, vol. iii. p. 490. 5: . See Koran cxi.: Abu Labab, at the instigation of his wife, Omm Jahil, rejected Muhammad's claim t[...]
2: . Koran xii. 110. 3: . Koran ii. 136. 4: . "On that day shall their hands speak unto us, and their feet shall bear witness of that which the[...] 5: . Bahau-'d-Din Amili, in his Nan wa Halwa, chap. iv., compares lust to a cow, referring to Koran ii[...]
2: . Anvar i Suhaili, chap. iv. Story IV. 3: . Koran xxxvi. 6. 4: . Koran lxi. 5: "God led their hearts astray." 5: . God said, "Come ye either in obedience, or in spite of your wishes" (Koran xli. 10). 6: . Koran li. 56. 7: . See Koran ii. 55, with Sale's note. 8: . Koran xii. 11. 9: . "All things have we created after a fixed decree, every action great and small is written." Koran[...] 10: . The Logos or first Emanation produced the second or "Universal Soul." 11: . "O Apostle! proclaim all that hath been sent down" (Koran v. 71). 12: . "Which party," i.e., those doomed to be saved or those doomed to destruction. 13: . "Nothing shall be reckoned to a man save that for which he hath made effort" (Koran liii. 40). 14: . So Sa'di Bostan Book I. Cp. Butler's Analogy, Conclusion. 15: . i.e., exert themselves much.
2: . Koran viii. 17. Said of the sand cast into the eyes of the men of Mecca at Beder. 3: . See Gulshan i Raz, I. 354, where the commentator says the allusion is to Moses at Mount Sinai. Ko[...]
2: . Koran viii. 10. 3: . The Id ul Azha, or the Feast of Sacrifices, held on the tenth day of the month Zul Hijja. It is a[...] 4: . This refers to Koran ii. 63. The cow was to be sacrificed in order that a murderer might be disco[...] 5: . i.e., Earth losing its own form becomes vegetable, vegetable again perishes to feed and be transm[...] 6: . Koran ii. 153: "Verily we are God's, and to Him shall we return." 7: . Koran iii. 29. 8: . "Seest thou not to what God likeneth a good word? To a good tree, its root firmly fixed, and its [...] 9: . i.e., of the zodiac. 10: . Koran v. 59. 11: . "They surely are infidels who say, 'God is the third of three,' for there is no God but one God" [...]
2: . Koran viii. 50 3: . Koran xvii. 66. 4: . "Verily of the faithful hath God bought their persons and their substance, on condition of Paradi[...] 5: . "The desire of riches occupieth you till ye come to the grave. Nay! but in the end ye shall know.[...] 6: . Koran xxxvii. 101. 7: . According to its etymology. Islam means self-surrender to God as well as safety, peace, and obedi[...] 8: . Cp. Milton, Paradise Lost, v. 482: "Flow'rs and their fruit, Man's nourishment, by gradual sca[...] 9: . Koran xxvii. 7. 10: . There is a Hadis to the effect that each word of the Koran has seven meanings. See Koran iii. 5. [...] 11: . Koran xvii. 63. 12: . The Lucknow commentator says that Faizi (brother of Abul Fazl Akbar's minister) once spoke disres[...]
2: . Koran ii. 213. 3: . "My servant draws nigh to me by pious deeds till I love him, and, when I love him, I am his eye, [...] 4: . Cp. Koran xvi 3.
2: . The letter is given in Koran xxvii. 30. 3: . All these legends are derived from Koran xxi., xxvii., and xxxviii. See Sale's notes. 4: . This refers to Muhammad, who is at once the "First reason" (Logos) and the "Perfect man," who is [...] 5: . He was also the final cause of creation. "If it had not been for thee, the world had not been cre[...] 6: . Muhammad as the Logos is the channel by which divine grace is conveyed to man. The "change of the[...] 7: . A Hadis. 8: . Music is much used in the religious services of the "Maulavi" order of Darveshes, founded by Jala[...] 9: . "Am not I your lord?" (Koran vii. 171). 10: . "When there shall be a trumpet blast, that shall be a dreadful day" (Koran lxxiv. 7). 11: . The so-called Pythagorean doctrine of the "Harmony of the spheres" was as well known to Persian p[...] 12: . This is an allusion to the story of the "Believer's lost camel." Book ii., Story xi. 13: . This alludes to the well-known poem of Faridu-d-Din 'Attar the "Mantiqu-t-Tair." 14: . Book ii. Story v. 15: . Koran xxvii. 16. There is a Hadis, "Speak to men according to the amount of their intelligence." [...] 16: . "These are they who have bought error at the price of guidance, but their traffic hath not been g[...] 17: . Union attained, all duality and separate phenomenal existence are swallowed up in the One (Noumen[...] 18: . Koran iii. 5. 19: . Koran xxxvi. 7. 20: . "And every man's work have we fastened about his neck, and on the last day will we bring forth to[...] 21: . Koran xxiv. 35. 22: . Koran xxxix. 67. 23: . Koran ii. 148. 24: . Koran xxx. 49. 25: . Koran iii. 182. 26: . "But is it unreasonable to confess that we believe in God, not by reason of the nature which conc[...] 27: . Koran vii. 22. 28: . He said, "That thou hast caused me to err" (Koran vii. 15). This is the burden of many of 'Omar K[...] 29: . Koran xi. 43. See Book iii., Story 5. 30: . Koran ix. 130. 31: . Knowledge of "The Truth" is to be attained not by exercise of the reason, but by illumination fro[...] 32: . Freytag, Arabum Proverbia, vol. ii. p. 898; 1 Cor. iv. 10. 33: . "They were amazed at Yusuf, and cut their hands, and said, 'God keep us, this is no man!'" (Koran[...] 34: . Koran lxxiii. 1. 35: . Koran ix. 126.
2: . Koran xxvi. 79. 3: . See Mishkat ul Masabih, vol. i. p. 463. 4: . Koran xx. 70.
2: . A hill in Mazandaran. 3: . "And some there are who say, 'We believe in God and in the last day,' yet they are not believers"[...] 4: . Universal Reason, here applied to Muhammad. "The first thing which God created was ('aql) Reason [...]
2: . See Koran xliii. 50. 3: . Compare the Hadis, "Die before you die," i.e., mortify your carnal desires, and you will find spi[...] 4: . The Turkish commentator translates ruh by Haqq Yoluna, "for the sake of truth," "in the way of tr[...] 5: . Koran liii. 40. 6: . Koran xxxvi, 29. 7: . Koran liv. 1. 8: . Ghazzali divides the ancient Greek philosophers into three classes: Dahriyun, Tabayiun, and Ilahi[...] 9: . Koran xv. 23.
2: . See Gulshan i Raz, I. 120. 3: . Koran ii. 29. 4: . See Koran xxi. 68, and the Commentators thereon. 5: . So Job x. 8: " Thy hands have made me, yet Thou dost destroy me."
2: . Koran lxxx. 34. 3: . "Aql i Kull, Universal Reason, or the Logos, was identified with the prophet Muhammad." 4: . Koran xiv. 49. 5: . This story comes from Koran ii. 261.
2: . See the parallel passage in Gulshan i Raz, I. 317, and the note. It is based on the Aristotelian [...] 3: . Koran xxix. 64. 4: . Zu'l Qarnain, Chaucer's Dulkarn, means "He of the two horns," and here denotes Alexander the Grea[...] 5: . See the parallel passage in Gulshan i Raz, I. 431, and the note thereon. This property is the mys[...]
2: . Koran xv. 72. 3: . Koran ix. 33. 4: . Koran lxxiii. 20. 5: . Koran xxxiii. 33. 6: . Koran vii. 171. 7: . "Islam is the baptism of God" (Koran ii. 132). 8: . Koran xcii. 4. 9: . Koran xxxii. 30. i.e., Wait thou for their punishment, as they wait for thy downfall (Rodwell). [...] 10: . Here we have another Platonic doctrine. "Some say the belief of the Sufis is the same as that of [...] 11: . I.e., I will recognize the nonentity of all this phenomenal being, and court self-annihilation. [...] 12: . The Bulaq translator renders An naward thus. 13: . The "Indelible Tablet" (of God's decrees) is here applied to the Logos-the channel through whom G[...] 14: . Koran xxxvi. 29. 15: . Koran lxvii. 2.
2: . "Of them who devise stratagems, God is beast" (Koran iii. 47). 3: . Koran lxviii. 51.
2: . Cp. Bp. Butler, "On a state of probation as implying trial and danger" (Analogy, Chap. iv. Pt. 1)[...] 3: . Probably referring to Origin. 4: . Koran ii. 264. 5: . Koran iii. 200. 6: . Koran vi. 142: "Eat of their fruit, but be not prodigal, and exceed not." 7: . Or, "If there be no supporter, there can be nothing supported." 8: . Koran xxxvi. 8. 9: . Koran vii. 13. 10: . Koran xciii. 7.
2: . Koran xcvi. 9. 3: . Koran xvi. 70. 4: . Koran ci. 5. 5: . Koran xv. 17. The sin of Iblis was his envy of Adam. 6: . Koran lxxxix. 27 7: . Mishkat ul Masabih, i. p. 209, note. 8: . Koran iv. 124.
2: . Alluding to Bokhari, the author of the "Sahih Bokhari," the first and most esteemed collection of[...] 3: . Koran xvii. 72. The man of "external knowledge" is "carried only by land," but the mystic is led [...] 4: . When reason is annihilated, the "Truth" is reflected in the resulting caput mortuum or Not-being,[...] 5: . These letters were supposed to have mysterious meanings. See Rodwell, Koran, p. 17, note. 6: . Miskat ul Masabih, i. 417.
2: . Koran x. 98. 3: . Koran vi 41. 4: . Koran lvi. 84. 5: . Koran xxv. 70. The "final restitution" of all by free grace. 6: . Cp. the Hadis: "Inspiration is a light that shines in the heart, and shows the nature of all thin[...] 7: . See Koran lxix. 18. 8: . See the parallel passage in Guishan i Raz, 1. 690.
2: . Koran lxxxvi. 5. 3: . Koran xviii. 48, and lv. 14. 4: . Koran xxxix. 61. 5: . Koran ii. 17. 6: . See Guishan i Raz, Answer vii. p. 45. Mansur Hallaj (woolcarder), the celebrated Sufi who was put[...] 7: . See Guishan i Raz, i. 454, and note. The doctrine of the descent of the Deity into man (Halul), o[...]
2: . Koran xcii. 10.
2: . Koran ii. 191. 3: . Koran ii. 24. 4: . Koran v. 65. 5: . Koran xx. 25. 6: . Koran xxviii. 38. 7: . A society at Basra, who wrote, about 980 AD., an encyc1opedia of philosophy (trans. by Dieterici)[...] 8: . Koran vi. 76. 9: . Alluding to the first anecdote in Book II. 10: . Koran lxxvii. 10.
2: . Koran xlviii. 29. 3: . Koran xxiv. 60. 4: . The Prophet said, "Sit not with a disputer about fate, nor converse with him." 5: . Koran iii. 66. 6: . Koran vi. 161. 7: . "And when they saw him they were amazed at him, and cut their hands" (Koran xii. 31). 8: . It is supposed to bring good fortune. 9: . Bewilderment is the "truly mystical darkness of ignorance" which falls upon the mystic when the l[...]
2: . Koran xxix. 64. 3: . "But as to the infidels, their works are like the mirage in the desert" (Koran xxiv. 39). 4: . I.e., he has no director (Murshid i kamil) to instruct him in the right course.
2: . Koran xxvii. 19. 3: . Koran xxxiii. 23. 4: . i.e., are based on hearsay. 5: . "When God manifested Himself to the mount He turned it to dust, and Moses fell in a swoon" (Koran[...] 6: . A proverb which is not given by Freytag. 7: . Ideas and types lead men on to actual sight when they are strong enough to bear it. Job xlii. 5. [...] 8: . Koran xlv. 23. 9: . Place of refuge, i.e., heavenly visions; a foretaste of the world to come (Gulshan i Raz, I. 679)[...] 10: . Koran cix. 6. 11: . Koran xliii. 31. 12: . Cp. Freytag, Arabum Proverbia, vol ii. p. 165. 13: . Koran ii. 286. 14: . Koran xxvi. 50. 15: . Koran xxxvi. 25. 16: . A great theologian of Khorasan who lived from A.D. 1150 to 1210. De Slane's Ibn Khallikan, ii. 65[...] 17: . See Gulshan i Raz, I. 453, note. 18: . Koran xxxv. 25.
2: . Koran xvii. 72. 3: . "We proposed to the heavens and to the earth to receive the deposit, but they refused the burden.[...] 4: . "We said unto the angels, 'Prostrate yourselves before Adam,' and they prostrated themselves, exc[...] 5: . Freytag, Arabum Proverbia, iii. 222. 6: . Koran xxxiii. 72, quoted above. "Deposit" is here interpreted of the will, the ability to go righ[...]
2: . Koran viii. 18. 3: . Koran v. 69. 4: . Koran vii. 15 and 22. 5: . Koran vii. 15 and 22. 6: . Koran xcix. 7.
2: . "To God I commit my case" (Koran xl. 47).
2: . "A wine cup tempered at the camphor fountain shall the just quaff" (Koran lxxvi. 5). 3: . Koran ii. 24. 4: . See couplet 122 of the Guishan i Raz: "When the object looked at is very close to the eye, The e[...] 5: . Koran l. 15. 6: . Koran xlviii. 29.
2: . Koran lvi. 79.
2: . Koran liii. 19, and Rodwell's note. 3: . Koran ix. 84. 4: . Koran liii. 3. 5: . Koran xxvi. 88. 6: . Cp. Nicom. Ethics, x., iv. 6. 7: . Compare Gulshan i Raz, I. 624. Ecstatic words and states are the offspring of communion with God.[...]
2: . Koran l. 15. 3: . Koran ii. 28. 4: . Because, as Sir T. Browne says, "God is all things." 5: . See Gulshan i Raz, I. 265, and note. 6: . Koran xxvi. 189. The cloud emitted heat instead of rain, to punish those who disregarded Shu'aib,[...] 7: . Koran xxix. 69. 8: . A Hadis. Cp. 1 Cor. i. 25, 26.
2: . Koran ii. 56. 3: . Samiri, the maker of the golden calf. Qarun Korah. 4: . Freytag Arabum Proverbia, iii. 277. 5: . Koran lxvii. 22, iii. 155, xlii. 36. 6: . Koran xliii. 37. 7: . Anvari Suhaili, Chap. vii. Story III. 8: . Freytag, Arabum Proverbia, i. 287. 9: . Koran lvii. 4. 10: . Koran liii. 17. 11: . Koran xciv. 1. 12: . Gulshan i Raz, I. 120.
2: . Koran xii. 42.
2: . Surat, or "form," means picture, image, outward appearance as opposed to reality, conception or "[...] 3: . Sale's Koran, p. 75, note. 4: . i.e., the architypes in the "Intellectual Presence" or "world of command," which are afterwards s[...] 5: . See Koran xlii. 9. 6: . i.e., the similitudes used in the Koran. 7: . "The Truth," Al Haqq, the Divine Noumenon. 8: . See Gulshan i Raz, Answer III., and the Hadis, "Whoso knows himself knows his Lord." 9: . Koran xxvii. 16. 10: . Simurgh, "Oiseau extraordinaire qui reside au Caucase," as M. Garcin de Tassy calls it, means "th[...] 11: . i.e., the prophets and saints. 12: . Koran x. 37. 13: . Koran lxv. 2. 14: . i.e., "The Rule of Position."Khulasat ul Hisab, Book iv. 15: . Freytag, Arabum Proverbia, ii. 379. 16: . Koran ii. 213. 17: . Koran lxv. 7. 18: . i.e., hardened sinners like Pharaoh. 19: . Koran liii. 1. 20: . Koran xlvi. 20.
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