[FN#27] Affliction (or wrath) of the age.
[FN#28] For fuel.
[FN#29] "God will open on me another gate (or means) of making my living." A common formula, meaning, "It is not enough."
[FN#30] Or state problems.
[FN#31] One of the four great Muslim sects or schools of theology, taking its name from the Imam es Shafi (see post, p. 131, note). {see Vol. 2 FN#89}
[FN#32] Second of the Abbasside Khalifs, A.H. 136-158.
[FN#33] The second Khalif after Mohammed (A.H. 13-23) and the most renowned for piety and just government of all the borders of the office, except perhaps his descendant Omar ben Abdulaziz (A.H. 99-102).
[FN#34] As a reward (in the next world) for good deeds.
[FN#35] The fourth Khalif.
[FN#36] The word rendered "good breeding" may also be translated "polite accomplishments" or "mental discipline" and has a great number of other meanings.