[181] “Cæsar” is the Roman Emperor, the Qaysari-Rūm. Other Qaysar there is not.
[182] To write this name Omar is incorrect.
[183] Medina is the usual incorrect spelling of this name.
[184] The Arabian title is Khalīfa; of which Caliph is a corruption.
[185] “Commander of the Believers” is his usual title. “Rome” is the Lower Empire.
[186] Muhammed’s heart is believed to have been cleansed by an angel.
[187] “God’s countenance” means also, in Arabic, God’s cause.
[188] God is this “sun;” the “motes” are all created objects.
[189] The “Friend” is God, the Gnostic’s “darling.”
[190] “Rome” in Asia means the Lower Empire and Asia Minor; or, for the last few centuries, the Ottoman Empire.