[41] Qur’ān ii. 24.
[42] Qur’ān lxxx. 15.
[43] Qur’ān lvi. 78.
[44] Qur’ān lvi. 79.
[45] Qur’ān xli. 42.
[46] Qur’ān xii. 64.
[47] Qur’ān vii. 150.
[48] Balkh, to the south of the west part of the Upper Oxus, is in latitude 36°, 48′ N., longitude 67°, 4′ E. from Greenwich. It represents the ancient Bactra, otherwise called Zariaspa.
[49] Husāmu-’l-Haqqi-wa-’d-Dīn, his full title of honour. (See Anecdotes, chap. vi.)
[50] Bāyezīd or Abū-Yazīd, of Bestām, in Khurāsān, Persia, latitude 36°, 25´ N., longitude 55°, 0´ E., a celebrated teacher and saint among the mystics of Islām, died A.H. 261, A.D. 874 (though A.H. 234, A.D. 848, has also been mentioned by some). His name was Tayfūr, son of ‘Isà, son of Ādam, son of Surūshān, a Zoroastrian who embraced Islām.