[Footnote 30: Khosráu (Cyrus) is the title of several ancient kings of
Persia, and is here used in the plural to denote monarchs in general.
The term "kiblah," fronting-point, signifies the object towards which
the worshipper turns when he prays.]
[Footnote 31: Korah or Kárun—the miser who disobeyed Moses and was swallowed up with his treasures by the earth. They are said to be still sinking deeper and deeper. (See Numbers, xvi.)]
[Footnote 32: How vain were the glories of Solomon! Ásaf was his minister, the East wind his courser, and the language of birds one of his accomplishments; but the blast of time had swept them away.]
[Footnote 33: The "Comment of the Comments" is a celebrated explanatory treatise on the Koran.]
[Footnote 34: Káf is a fabulous mountain encircling the world. In this couplet and the following the poet ridicules the ascetics of his time.]
[Footnote 35: The false coiners are inferior poets who endeavor to pass off their own productions as the work of Háfiz.]
[Footnote 36: Aiman (Happiness) is the valley in which God appeared to
Moses—metaphorically, the abode of the Beloved.]
[Footnote 37: "Mihráb"—the niche in a mosque, towards which Mohammedans pray.]
[Footnote 38: Kalandars are an order of Mohammedan dervishes who wander about and beg. The worthless sectaries of Kalandarism, Háfiz says, shave off beard and tonsure, but the true or spiritual Kalandar shapes his path by a scrupulous estimate of duty.]
[Footnote 39: "Farrukh" (auspicious) is doubtless the name of some favorite of the Poet.]