Footnotes



[1] This must mean that the learned and the peasants may possess property.

[2] Similar questions and answers may be traced back through al-Nawawi to St. Mark xiii.3 seq.

[3] Reading sirat for sirat

[4] if the reading is taken as hikmah

[5] Surah xxxi.19. The catechism, however, substitutes akfara (most disbelieving) for ankara (harshest) as the superlative qualifying 'voice.'