[FN#54] i.e. vaunting himself of offering richer presents.
[FN#55] Apparently Zebid, the ancient capital of the province of Tehameh in Yemen, a town on the Red Sea, about sixty miles north of Mocha. The copyist of the Tunis MS. appears to have written the name with the addition of the characteristic desinence (oun) of the nominative case, which is dropped except in the Koran and in poetry.
[FN#56] Name of the province in which Mecca is situated.
[FN#57] Syn. assembly.
[FN#58] i.e. day and night, to wit, for ever.
[FN#59] Syn. the loftiness of his purpose.
[FN#60] Lit "I charm thee by invoking the aid of God for thee against evil" or "I seek refuge with
God for thee."
[FN#61] Or "determinate."
[FN#62] Koran xxxiii. 38.
[FN#63] Or "accomplishments."