[FN#14] i.e. a youth slender and flexile as a bough.
[FN#15] i.e. sway gracefully. A swimming gait is the ideal of elegance to the Arab.
[FN#16] An Arab of Medina, proverbial for faithlessness.
[FN#17] Joseph is the Mohammedan prototype of beauty.
[FN#18] For the loss of Joseph. Jacob, in like manner, is the Muslim type of inconsolable grief.
[FN#19] Uncle of the Prophet.
[FN#20] First cousin of the Prophet.
[FN#21] i.e. cut off her head.
[FN#22] When asked, on the Day of Judgment, why he had slain her.
[FN#23] i.e. that some one of the many risings in Khorassan (which was in a chronic state of rebellion during Er Reshid's reign) had been put down.