[105] Founder of one of the four great Mohammedan schools of law.
[106] The Prophet said, “I have a time with God of such sort that neither angel nor prophet is my peer,” meaning (if we interpret his words according to the sense of this passage) that he felt himself to be timeless.
[107] The glorious days when Islam first set out to convert and conquer the world.
[108] The takbír is the cry “Allah akbar,” “Allah is most great.”
XVIII
An invocation.
O Thou that art as the soul in the body of the universe,
Thou art our soul and thou art ever fleeing from us.