“There is more truth in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in all the creeds.”
[XXXI]
“Mutakallem,” disputant. The mutakallemin are the logicians and theologians of Islam.
[XXXIII]
Hadil is a poetic term for dove. And in Arabic mythology it is the name of a particular dove, which died of thirst in the days of Noah, and is bemoaned until this day.
“Ababil,” a flock of birds, who scourged with flint-stones which they carried in their beaks, one of the ancient Arab tribes, noted for its idolatry and evil practices.