[40] Her father, Hátim of Tai, is proverbial in the East for his hospitality.
[41] The story of the pulpit that wept when Mohammed descended from it occurs, I think, in the Masnaví.
[42] When, according to Mohammedan belief, the sun will rise in the west.
[43] A quotation from the Masnaví. The Prophet was buried at Medina.
[44] Báyazíd of Bistám died in a.d. 875. He refused to eat a water-melon, saying he had no assurance that the Prophet had ever tasted that fruit.
[45] Mohammed used to retire to a cave on Mount Hirá, near Mecca, for the purpose of solitary meditation and other ascetic observances.
[46] Lát and Uzzá were goddesses worshipped by the heathen Arabs.
[47] Fárán, name of a mountain in the neighbourhood of Mecca.
[48] Koran, ch. 2, v. 28. In these words, which were addressed to the angels, God foretold the creation of Adam.