[111] El-Ḳazweenee.
[112] Ḳur. ii. 22, and lxvi. 6.
[113] Mir-át ez-Zemán.
[114] Tradition from the Prophet, recorded by Ibn-´Abbás, and quoted by Ibn-El-Wardee; and by El-Isḥáḳee, in describing an earthquake that happened in his lifetime. See also the next note.
[115] In Ibn-Esh-Shiḥneh, "Kuyoothán;" the orthography of this word is doubtful, as the vowel-points are not written. As the tradition is related in Ibn-El-Wardee, this bull takes a breath twice in the course of every day (or twenty-four hours): when he exhales, the sea flows; and when he inhales, it ebbs. But it must not be imagined that none of the Arabs has any notion of the true theory of the tides: the more learned among them explain this phenomenon by the influence of the moon. Many of the Arabs attribute earthquakes to the shaking of this bull.
[116] In Ibn-El-Wardee, a quantity of sand is introduced between the bull and the fish.
[117] Ed-Demeeree, on the authority of Wahb Ibn-Munebbih, quoted by El-Isḥáḳee, 1. 1.
[118] Ibn-El-Wardee.
[119] [The other stages are Laẓà, El-Ḥuṭameh, Sa´eer, Saḳar, Jeheem, and Ḥáwiyeh.]
[120] Ḳur. xxxix. 67.