[19] This work, of which Professor Nicholson says there are but two copies extant, one in Constantinople and the other in his own Collection, was published in Cairo, in 1907, edited by Sheikh Ibrahim ul-Yazeji. [20] "To let go a flea is a more virtuous act than to give a dirham to a beggar."--Abu'l-Ala. [21] The Orthodox, i. e. the Mohammedans. [22] I do not find these verses in the printed copies of either the Luzumiyat or Suct uz-Zand. But they are quoted, from some Ms. copy I suppose, by the historian Abu'l-Fida. [23] Omar wrote poetry in Arabic too. My learned friend, Isa Iskandar Maluf of Zehleh, Mt. Lebanon, showed me some quatrains of "Omar the Tent-maker and Astronomer," in an old Arabic Ms. which bear a striking resemblance to some of Abu'l-Ala's both in thought and style. End of Project Gutenberg's The Luzumiyat of Abu'l-Ala, by Abu'l-Ala Al-Maarri