[219]. Chap. xv.
[220]. Chap. iv, v. 1.
[221]. Chap. iv, v. 24.
[222]. Koran, iv, v. 15-20.
[223]. Koran, iv, v. 38.
[224]. Chap. iv, v. 59.
[225]. About A.D. 570.
[226]. Canopus was a star which stood at the right in the heavens when the observer was looking from Hirat, and consequently it lay in the direction of Arabia, which the prophet claimed as the home of wisdom, and therefore wisdom was represented by Canopus.
[227]. Translated by Almokaffa about A.D. 770.
[228]. See preface, Eastwick’s version, p. 10.