412 ([return])
[ Or "honoured" (aziz).]
413 ([return])
[ Night DLVI.]
414 ([return])
[ Lit. "how [was] the device therein;" i.e how he should do for an expedient thereanent. Burton, "the device whereby he should manage it.">[
415 ([return])
[ Or "called upon" (nedeh).]
416 ([return])
[ El ashreh [mubeshshereh understood], "the ten [who were rejoiced with glad tidings]," i.e. ten of Mohammed's companions (Abou Bekr, Omar, Othman, Ali, Telheh, Zubeir, Saad ibn Abi Weccas, Abdurrehman ibn Auf, Abou Ubeideh ibnu'l Jerrah and Said ibn Zeid), to whom (and to whom alone) he is said to have promised certain entrance into Paradise. They are accordingly considered to have pre-eminence over the Prophet's other disciples and are consequently often invoked by the less orthodox Muslims as intercessors with him, much after the fashion of the Quatuordecim Adjutores, the Fourteen Helpers [in time of need], (i.e. Saints Catherine, Margaret, Barbara, Pantaleon, Vitus, Eustace, Blase, Gregory, Nicholas, Erasmus, Giles, George, Leonard and Christopher) of Romish hagiology.]