[Footnote 40: "Hindú" is here equivalent to "slave.">[
[Footnote 41: Zerdusht (in Latin, Zoroaster)—the celebrated prophet of the Gulbres, or fire-worshippers. Nimrod is said to have practised a religion, similar to theirs.]
[Footnote 42: Ád and Thamúd were Arab tribes exterminated by God in consequence of their having disobeyed the prophet Sálih.]
[Footnote 43: By a "grain" is meant a grain of wheat; according to
Mohammedans, the forbidden fruit of Paradise.]
[Footnote 44: Kamál was an Arab whose glance inflicted death.]
[Footnote 45: "Alif-form," meaning a straight and erect form: the letter Alif being, as it were, of upright stature.]
[Footnote 46: "The men who glance" are lovers. The spiritual or true lover is he who loves God.]