[257] “It is rather amusing to see the personality of this Arab battery:” p. 42.—Ed.
[258] General Gordon here declines to fight the Khedive’s ministerial battles.—Ed.
[259] i.e. General Gordon.—Ed.
[260] Title of the Book, ‘The Dissipation of Gloom from all (Mohammedan) Peoples.’
[261] The Moslems say that the Koran was sent down, every word of it, by the Angel Gabriel to Mahomed.
[262] This verse is considered to be the completion of God’s final Revelation through Mahomed.
[263] The Hadiths—the authorised traditional sayings of Mahomed and those brought down by Gabriel.
[264] In Arabic writing quotation marks are not used, but, at the end of the quotation, they append the words, “End of his words.”
[265] Saadat—“Felicity”—is used as title of honour, and cannot, of course, be properly used for one who is a Kāfir and under Divine wrath.
[266] “Peace be on him” (on whom be peace), the usual formula of salutation to a true believer if alive, and used of prophets when their names are mentioned.