[FN#10] Intendant of the palace to Haroun er Reshid and captain of his guards.
[FN#11] i.e. the Khalif
[FN#12] i.e. As if he were an old Bedouin, with forehead disfigured by the friction of the rope of camel's hair, which is part of the Bedouin headdress.
[FN#13] Mohammed said, "Change the whiteness of your hair, but not with anything black." Henna is the approved hairdye for a true-believer; it changes the hair to a reddish-brown.
[FN#14] i.e. thou that art as dear to me as my sight and hearing.
[FN#15] A fountain of Paradise.
[FN#16] Syn. languishing (munkesir).
[FN#17] A river of Paradise.
[FN#18] i.e. Orthodox.
[FN#19] These words are a quotation from a well-known piece of verse.