[141] The words as given in the original, in Arabic, are not in the Qur’ān.
[142] A cock that crows out of season, in the night.
[143] Qur’ān xiv. 47.
[144] ‘Azrā’īl, the angel of death, who takes men’s souls.
[145] Solomon is related in the Qur’ān xxi. 81, and xxxiv. 11, to have possessed power over the wind.
[146] In Qur’ān iii. 47, and viii. 30, God is styled ”the best of stratagem-makers.“
[147] I do not find this proverb in Freytag’s ”Proverbia.“
[148] Qur’ān ii. 15.
[149] See Qur’ān xlviii. 29; lix. 8; and lxxiii. 20.
[150] In Qur’ān ii. 29, the account of this is given. Compare Gen. ii. 19.