[FN#461] The reader will note the persistency with which the duty of universal benevolence is preached.
[FN#462] Arab. from Pers. "Shah-bandar": see vol. iv. 29.
[FN#463] i.e. of thy coming, a popular compliment.
[FN#464] This is the doctrine of the universal East; and it is true concerning wives and widows, not girls when innocent or rather ignorant. According to Western ideas Kamar al-Zaman was a young scoundrel of the darkest dye whose only excuses were his age, his inexperience and his passions.
[FN#465] Arab. "Dayyъs" prop. = a man who pimps for his own wife and in this sense constantly occurring in conversation.
[FN#466] This is taking the law into one's own hands with a witness; yet amongst races who preserve the Pundonor in full and pristine force, e.g. the Afghans and the Persian Iliyat, the killing so far from being considered murder or even justifiable homicide would be highly commended by public opinion.
[FN#467] Arab. "Nбkisбtu'aklin wa dнn": the words are attributed to the Prophet whom we find saying, "Verily in your wives and children ye have an enemy, wherefore beware of them" (Koran lxiv. 14): compare 1 Cor. vii. 28, 32. But Maоtre Jehan de Meung went farther,
"Toutes кtez, serez ou fыtes
De faict ou de volontй, putes."
[FN#468] Arab. "Habнbн wa tabнbн," the common jingle.
[FN#469] Iblis and his connection with Diabolos has been noticed in vol. i. 13. The word is foreign as well as a P.N. and therefore is imperfectly declined, although some authorities deduce it from "ablasa"=he despaired (of Allah's mercy). Others call him Al-Hбris (the Lion) hence Eve's first-born was named in his honour Abd al-Haris. His angelic name was Azбzнl before he sinned by refusing to prostrate himself to Adam, as Allah had commanded the heavenly host for a trial of faith, not to worship the first man, but to make him a Keblah or direction of prayer addressed to the Almighty. Hence he was ejected from Heaven and became the arch-enemy of mankind (Koran xviii. 48). He was an angel but related to the Jinn: Al-Bayzбwi, however (on Koran ii. 82), opines that angelic by nature he became a Jinn by act. Ibn Abbas held that he belonged to an order of angels who are called Jinn and begot issue as do the nasnбs, the Ghъl and the Kutrub which, however are male and female, like the pre-Adamite manwoman of Genesis, the "bi-une" of our modern days. For this subject see Terminal Essay.