[131] “Eye-binding” is a name for sorcery. The spectator is supposed to have his sight spell-bound, so as not to see what is really done.
[132] ‘Ād, a pre-Semitic, perhaps Turanian, people in south-eastern Arabia, often mentioned in the Qur’ān. They refused to believe the prophet Hūd (supposed to be Heber), and were destroyed, lxix. 6-7, by an eight days’ tempest.
[133] Qur’ān xxiii. 76, &c.
[134] Qur’ān iii. 43.
[135] Qur’ān vii. 139.
[136] Kalīla and Dimna is the Arabic version of Pīlpāy’s fables.
[137] This proverb is given in Freytag’s “Proverbia Arabica,” ii. p. 488, n. 278, as an answer from Muhammed to a foe twice made prisoner.
[138] Equivalent to tethering a horse. Cromwell’s: “Keep your powder dry.“
[139] The original says: ”The earner is God’s friend.“
[140] The original has: ”Flees the snake, and meets a dragon.“