Rúmí, The Mathnaví, I, 1906–1907.
‘Ulamá, from the Arabic alima, to know, may be translated learned men, scientists, religious authorities.
The Resh Galuta, a prince or ruler of the exiles in Babylon, to whom Jews, wherever they were, paid tribute.
A measure of weight, in Ṭihrán equivalent to six and two-thirds pounds.
Qur’án 9:33; 48:28; 61:9.
Qur’án 54:55.
Qur’án 7:171: Yawm-i-Alast, the Day when God, addressing Adam’s posterity-to-be, said to them, “Am I not your Lord?” (a-lastu bi Rabbikum) and they replied: “Yea, we bear witness.”
Qur’án 9:33.
Cf. Qur’án 27:12, referring to Moses: “Put now thy hand into thy bosom: it shall come forth white ... one of nine signs to Pharaoh and his people....” Also Qur’án 7:105; 20:23; 26:32; 32. Also Exodus 4:6. See too Edward Fitzgerald’s The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
Now the New Year reviving old Desires,