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203. Jid means 'neck', as in the verse of A'sha of B. Qays:
The day that Qutayla showed us a lovely neck
Which necklaces adorned
[Diu'an, p. 140. 6 (with unimportant var~ants).J' The plu~al is a~ya!.. Masad
is fibre crushed like cotton, ~nd rop.e 15 twlsted.!r~m It" ~lwNablgha al­
Dhubyani whose name was Zlyad b. Amr b. Mu aWlya saId.
Many a fat young mare has a tooth
Which has a sound like the waterwheel and the rope. I
The singular is masada.
204. The words 'his religion we loathe and hate' are not from I.I.
205. Humaza is one who insults a ~?n p~blicly. He shuts.his eyes upon him
and winks at him. I:Iassan b. Thablt said:
I bit into you with a rhyme that burnt like fire
And you grovelled in humiliation. 2
Plural humazat. Lumaza is one who insults a man secretly. Ru'ba b.
al-J:Iajjaj said:
In the shadow of him who oppresses, despises, and slanders me.
Plural lumaza.
The Life of Muhammad
6 A'j}a-k means 'liar'. Cf. 'La, it is- of their lying that they say God has
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begotten. Verily they tell a lie' (Sura 37. 151). U a Sal :
Not of a man who uttered a lying speech.
207. The ba~ab of Gehenna is everything that is ~indl.ed in it. Abu Dhu'ayb
al-Hudhali whose name was Khuwaylid b. Khahd sald:
Quench, do not kindle, and do not feed the flame
Of war lest its horrors hasten on you.
Another reading is 'And do not be the firestick' [the equivalent of our poker.
Dfwan xxx, C. 6]. As the poet says:
I stirred up my fire for him and he saw ~he blaze.
Unless I had stirred it he would have mIssed the way.
S Muhl means molten bronze or lead or any other metal, according to
:~h~t Abu 'Ubayda told me. We were told that al-J:Iasan b. Abu'I-J:Iasan
a1- Basn- sal.. 'd' "Abdullah b Mas'ud was put in charge of the treasury d' b of
Kufa 'by