[FN#147] The door-keeper of Paradise.
[FN#148] i.e. Crown of Kings.
[FN#149] An obscure star in the Great Bear.
[FN#150] Zibl means "dung" or "sweepings." Can (Khan) means "chief."
[FN#151] i.e., Him who fights for the Faith.
[FN#152] A town on the Euphrates, on the borders of Syria and
Mesopotamia.
[FN#153] i.e. recognized him as king by naming him in the public prayers.
[FN#154] i.e. the silky whiskers, which it is common, in poetry, to call green likening them to newly-sprouted herbage.
[FN#155] i.e. the Day of Judgment.
[FN#156] Ironical.