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Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana and Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir
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161 Qur’ān ii. 151.
162 Not in Freytag’s “Proverbia.“
163 See note in the Author’s Preface, and Chapter vi. in the Anecdotes.
164 The commentators on Qur’ān xxi. 69, mention Nimrod’s gnat.
165 Qur’ān xxviii. 5, mentions Haman with Pharaoh.
166 He is said to have believed Satan rather than Abraham.
167 The translator has ventured to coin the expressions ”synglottism,“ ”synglottist,“ and ”syncardism“ as specimens of a whole class used in Persian.
168 A title designating Adam,—who named all things.
169 Qur’ān ii. 29.
170 Omar.
171 A very doubtful clause; it may be rendered: ”Thou art with me.“
172 Adam, in most languages, has come to signify man.
173 Qur’ān ii. 33, mentions merely a ”caulescent plant;““wheat” is one of several glosses by commentators, like our “apple.”
174 Qur’ān vii. 22, makes Adam confess sin with contrition, together with Eve, thereby meriting God’s eventual pardon.
175 Qur’ān cx. 1.
176 Evidently the name of a rival.
177 These are sainted spiritualists, true and pious dervishes.
178 Qur’ān ii. 22, and lxvi. 6, say “mankind and rocks.“
179 Another word coined to meet the requirements of the original. ”Ubiquity“ is the converse of ”nubiquity.” Nulliquity might be used.
180 Qur’ān ii. 111, and seven other places.
181 “Cæsar” is the Roman Emperor, the Qaysari-Rūm. Other Qaysar there is not.
182 To write this name Omar is incorrect.
183 Medina is the usual incorrect spelling of this name.
184 The Arabian title is Khalīfa; of which Caliph is a corruption.
185 “Commander of the Believers” is his usual title. “Rome” is the Lower Empire.
186 Muhammed’s heart is believed to have been cleansed by an angel.
187 “God’s countenance” means also, in Arabic, God’s cause.
188 God is this “sun;” the “motes” are all created objects.
189 The “Friend” is God, the Gnostic’s “darling.”
190 “Rome” in Asia means the Lower Empire and Asia Minor; or, for the last few centuries, the Ottoman Empire.
191 “Shadow of God on earth” is an Eastern title of royalty.
192 These two propositions give the pith of the doctrine held and inculcated by the mystics and spiritualists of Islām: “He’s bridegroom; God is bride.“
193 This First Book of the Mesnevī was written before the Būstān of Sa’dī. The myth of the dewdrop and pearl is much more ancient.
194 The date of the poem will be recollected; who disbelieved alchemy then?
195 Here is a beautiful and true application of the idea of ”transubstantiation.“
196 The original mentions Ferhād, a kind of Persian Dædalus, by his title of ”Mountain-Excavator.“(See Tale vii. dist. 365.)
197 Qur’ān liv. 1.
198 Qur’ān vii. 15, and xv. 39. At the fall, Satan accused God of tempting him; whereas Adam confessed his sin, and did not accuse Satan.
199 Qur’ān vii. 22.
200 Qur’ān xxiv. 26.