Note 454 — TALE OF THE TWO KINGS AND THE WAZIR’S DAUGHTERS.”[447]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Bid’ah,” lit. = an innovation, a new thing, an invention, any change from the custom of the Prophet and the universal practice of the Faith, whether it be in the cut of the beard or a question of state policy. Popularly the word = heterodoxy, heresy; but theologically it is not necessarily used in a bad sense. See vol. v. 167.