A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 05 (of 17)

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[353]. Koran ii. 159.

[354]. Koran xvi. 92. The verset ends with, “He warneth you, so haply ye may be mindful.”

[355]. Koran lxx. 38.

[356]. Koran xxxix. 54.

[357]. The Sunnis hold that the “Anbiyá” (= prophets, or rather announcers of Allah’s judgments) were not sinless. But this dogma is branded as most irreverent and sinful by the Shi’ahs or Persian “followers of Ali,” who make capital out of this blasphemy and declare that if any prophet sinned he sinned only against himself.

[358]. Koran xii. 18.

[359]. Koran ii. 107.

[360]. Koran li. 57. He (Allah) does not use the plurale majestatis.

[361]. Koran ii. 28.

[362]. Koran xvi. 100. Satan is stoned in the Miná or Muná basin (Night ccccxlii.) because he tempted Abraham to disobey the command of Allah by refusing to sacrifice Ishmael (Pilgrimage iii. 248).