[28] Ibid.
[29] El-Ḳazweenee.
[30] Ḳur-án, ch. ii. v. 22, and ch. lxvi. v. 6.
[31] Mir-át ez-Zemán.
[32] Tradition from the Prophet, recorded by Ibn-'Abbás, and quoted by Ibn-El-Wardee; and by El-Is-ḥáḳee, in describing an earthquake that happened in his life-time.—On the subject of earthquakes, see also the next foot-note.
[33] In Ibn-Esh-Sheḥneh, "Kuyoothán:" the orthography of this word is doubtful, as the vowel-points are not written. As the tradition is related in Ibn-El-Wardee, this bull takes a breath twice in the course of every day (or twenty-four hours); when he exhales, the sea flows; and when he inhales, it ebbs. But it must not be imagined that none of the Arabs have any notion of the true theory of the tides: the more learned among them explain this phenomenon by the influence of the moon.—Many of the Arabs attribute earthquakes to the shaking of this bull.
[34] In Ibn-El-Wardee, a quantity of sand is introduced between the bull and the fish.
[35] Ed-Demeeree, on the authority of Walib Ibn-Munebbih, quoted by El-Is-ḥáḳce, loco laudato.
[36] Ibn-El-Wardee.
[37] Ḳur-án, ch. xxxix. v. 67.