The Persian Literature Volume I Part 50

[Footnote 38: Kalandars are an order of Mohammedan dervishes who wander about and beg. The worthless sectaries of Kalandarism, Hafiz says, shave off beard and tonsure, but the true or spiritual Kalandar shapes his path by a scrupulous estimate of duty.]

[Footnote 39: "Farrukh" (auspicious) is doubtless the name of some favorite of the Poet.]

[Footnote 40: "Hindu" is here equivalent to "slave."]

[Footnote 41: Zerdusht (in Latin, Zoroaster)--the celebrated prophet of the Gulbres, or fire-wors.h.i.+ppers. Nimrod is said to have practised a religion, similar to theirs.]

[Footnote 42: ad and Thamud were Arab tribes exterminated by G.o.d in consequence of their having disobeyed the prophet Salih.]

[Footnote 43: By a "grain" is meant a grain of wheat; according to Mohammedans, the forbidden fruit of Paradise.]

[Footnote 44: Kamal was an Arab whose glance inflicted death.]

[Footnote 45: "Alif-form," meaning a straight and erect form: the letter Alif being, as it were, of upright stature.]

[Footnote 46: "The men who glance" are lovers. The spiritual or true lover is he who loves G.o.d.]

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