[26] Tradition from the Prophet, in the Mir-át ez-Zemán. [27] Ibid. [28] The worship here spoken of is prostration, as an act of obeisance to a superior being. [29] Ḳur. xviii. 48. [30] Eṭ-Ṭabaree, quoted in the Mir-át ez-Zemán. [31] Mir-át ez-Zemán. [32] Ḳur. vii. 11; and xxxviii. 77. [33] Mir-át ez-Zemán. [34] El-Ḥasan El-Baṣree, in the Mir-át ez-Zemán. My interpolation of the word "other" is required by his opinion before stated. [35] Mujáhid, quoted by El-Ḳazweenee. [36] Mujáhid, from Ibn-´Abbás, in the Mir-át ez-Zemán. [37] El-Ḥasan El-Baṣree, ibid. [38] ´Ikrimeh, from Ibn-´Abbás, ibid. [39] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, ii. 314. [39a] Ibid. ii. 311, 312. [40] Mir-át ez-Zemán. See above, p. 18. [41] Modern Egyptians, ch. x. [42] Ibid. [43] Sale, in a note on chap. xv. of the Ḳur-án. [44] So I translate the word "khaṭṭ;" but in Es-Suyooṭee's Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil wa-Murshid el-Mutaähhil, section 7, I find, in its place, the word "weshm," or "tattooing;" and there are some other slight variations and omissions in this tradition as there quoted. [45] El-Ḳazweenee. [46] Ḳur. lxxii. 6. [47] Modern Egyptians, ch. x. [48] Ibid. ch. xxiv. [49] Ḳur. xxvii. 17; xxxviii. 35. [50] Modern Egyptians, ch. x. [51] Ibid. [52] El-Ḳazweenee. [53] El-Jáḥiz (´Amr Ibn-Baḥr). [54] Tradition from Wahb Ibn-Munebbih, quoted in the account of the early Arabs in the Mir-át ez-Zemán. [55] El-Ḳazweenee. [56] Ibn-El-Wardee [fourteenth century]. [57] Its name is written differently in two different MSS. in my possession. [58] El-Ḳazweenee, and Mir-át ez-Zemán. [59] El-Ḳazweenee. In my MS. of Ibn-El-Wardee, I find the name written "Dahlán." He mentions an island called by this name, in the Sea of ´Omán; and describes its inhabitants as cannibal Sheyṭáns, like men in form, and riding on birds resembling ostriches. There is also an inferior class of the Jinn, termed El-Ghowwáṣah, that is, the Divers or Plungers in the seas. [60] El-Ḳazweenee, in the khátimeh [or epilogue] of his work. [61] Mir-át ez-Zemán. [62] Ibn-El-Wardee. [63] Idem. CHAPTER III. SAINTS. The Arabs entertain remarkable opinions with respect to the offices and supernatural powers of their saints, which form an important part of the mysteries of the Darweeshes (Dervishes), and are but imperfectly known to the generality of Muslims.