[1] 'Whatsoever alms ye shall give, of a truth God knoweth it.... Give ye your alms openly? it is well. Do ye conceal them and give them to the poor? This, too, will be of advantage to you, and will do away your sins: and God is cognizant of your actions' (_Koran_, ii. 274-5).
[2] _Sayyid_, 'lord', 'chief, the class of Musalmans who claim descent from Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet, and 'Ali, his cousin-german and adopted son; they are divided into two branches descended from Hasan and Husain, sons of 'Ali and Fatimah.
[3] _Mir_, a contraction of _Amir_, 'lord'.
[5] 'They who swallow down usury shall arise in the resurrection only as he ariseth whom Satan hath infected by his touch' (_Koran_, ii. 276). But this is rather theory than practice, and many ingenious methods are adopted to avoid the prohibition.
[6] _Begam_, feminine of _Beg_, 'lord', used to denote a Sayyid lady, like Khanam among Pathans.
[7] Here, as elsewhere, _zenanah, zananah_, Persian _zan_, 'woman'.
[8] This is incorrect. The Koran has been translated into various languages, but the translation is always interlineary with the original text. In Central Asia the Musalman conquerors allowed the Koran to be recited in Persian, instead of Arabic, in order that it might be intelligible to all (Arnold, _The Preaching of Islam_, 183).
[10] _Kurti_, a loose, long-sleeved jacket of muslin or net, among rich women embroidered on the neck and shoulders with gold, and draped down to the ankles in full, loose folds. It is made of red or other light-coloured fabrics for girls and married women; dark blue, bronze, or white for old ladies; bronze or black for widows.
[11] _Khan_, 'lord', 'prince', specially applied to persons of Mughal or Pathan descent.
[12] _Bahadur_, 'champion', a Mongol term; see Yule, _Hobson-Jobson_[2], 48 ff.
[13] _Nawab_, 'a deputy, delegate': the Anglo-Indian Nabob (ibid., 610 ff.).
[14] _Muharram_, 'that which is forbidden', the first month of the Musalman year, the first ten days of which are occupied with this mourning festival.
[15] By his wife Ja'dah, who was suborned to commit the deed by Yazid.
[16] Yazid, son of Mu'awiyah, the second Caliph of the house of Umaiyah, who reigned from A.D. 679 to 683. Gibbon (_Decline and Fall_, ed. W. Smith, vi. 278) calls him 'a feeble and dissolute youth'.