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Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana and Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir
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316 Qur’ān xciii. 10.
317 Qur’ān cxii. 3.
318 The world.
319 The belief is that Jesus was not crucified, but was caught up to the fourth heaven, that of the sun, where he will live until he comes again in glory.
320 The belief is that Adam plucked an ear of corn, the forbidden fruit, in paradise.
321 Abbās, Muhammed’s uncle, ancestor of the Abbāsī Caliphs.
322 Qur’ān li. 9.
323 Von Hammer, in his History of the Ottoman Empire, so entirely misunderstood this beautiful Arabian proverb, “Es sabru miftāhu ’l faraj,” as to read “farj” (pudendum), for “faraj” (success); and cloaked his blunder by the remark: “Too pungent for literal translation.”
324 Qur’ān iii. 153.
325 ‘Ali’s title is “The victorious Lion of God.”
326 This journey is recounted in Qur’ān xviii. 64-81.
327 Qur’ān xviii. 69.
328 Qur’ān xviii. 70.
329 Qur’ān xviii. 73.
330 Qur’ān xlviii. 10.
331 Qur’ān xviii. 16.
332 Qur’ān iii. 153.
333 Qur’ān xlviii. 6.
334 Qur’ān xxviii. 88.
335 Qur’ān lv. 29.
336 Qur’ān vii. 132.
337 See Tale iv., dist. 121.
338 Qur’ān vii. 132. See note, p. 224.
339 In Semitic and Muslim lore the moon is “he,” the sun “she.“
340 Qur’ān xlviii. 29.
341 Qur’ān vi. 94.
342 Qur’ān li. 17.
343 Qur’ān li. 18.
344 Qur’ān iv. 99.
345 Qur’ān xviii. 8-21.
346 Qur’ān lxix. 19.
347 Qur’ān lxix. 25.
348 The Persian equivalent of our ”carrying coals to Newcastle.”
349 A metallic mirror, formerly much used.
350 Qur’ān vii. 11.
351 I have failed to discover the name and history of the individual here used to point a moral by our great poet. Ibnu-Hishām and Nawawī do not mention him.—Translator.
352 Osmān.
353 Qur’ān xxxvi. 7.
354 Qur’ān xxxvi. 8.
355 Qur’ān xcix. 1.