[FN#76] i.e. to any one, as we should say, "to Tom, Dick or
Harry."
[FN#77] i.e. to any one, as we should say, "to Tom, Dick or
Harry."
[FN#78] El Hejjaj ben Yousuf eth Thekefi, a famous statesman and
soldier of the seventh and eighth centuries. He was governor of
Chald?a under the fifth and sixth Ommiade Khalifs and was
renowned for his cruelty; but appears nevertheless to have been a
prudent and capable administrator, who probably used no more
rigour than was necessary to restrain the proverbially turbulent
populations of Bassora and Cufa. Most of the anecdotes of his
brutality and tyranny, some of which will be found in this
collection, are, in all probability, apocryphal.
[FN#79] Wool is the distinctive wear of Oriental devotees.
[FN#80] Koran xxv. 70.
[FN#81] Of the Koran.
[FN#82] This verse contains a series of jeux-de-mots, founded
upon the collocation of the three proper names, Num, Suada and
Juml, with the third person feminine singular, preterite-present,
fourth conjugation, of their respective verb-roots, i.e. idka
anamet Num, if Num vouchsafe, etc., etc.
[FN#83] Nimeh.
[FN#84] "And he (Jacob) turned from them, saying, 'Woe is me for
Joseph!' And his eyes grew white for grief .
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