[246] Our word “fairy” is connected with the Persian “perī,” used here by the poet instead of the Arabic “jinn,” whence our “genie.”
[247] Qur’ān lv. 33.
[248] That is, it would appear: Individuals created out of nothing.
[249] That is: The Lord is with him who strives on the Lord’s side.
[250] A dried gourd, a calabash, is commonly used as a wine-decanter.
[251] An apostolic tradition.
[252] Also an apostolic tradition.
[253] Another apostolic tradition.
[254] The traditionary saying of Muhammed, of which this section is an amplification, is the following:—“Verily your Lord hath, in your time, sundry breathings; lo, then, turn ye towards them.”
[255] Qur’ān xxxiii. 72. When all things had declined responsibility, Adam voluntarily accepted it; was tempted; and fell. Had they not shrunk, man would not have been the sinner or the saint that he is.