The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 · Richard Francis Burton translation

Note 394
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

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Arab. "Huda" = direction (to the right way), salvation, a word occurring in the Opening Chapter of the Koran. Hence to a Kafir who offers the Salam-salutation many Moslems reply "Allah-yahdík" = Allah direct thee! (i.e. make thee a Moslem), instead of Allah yusallimak = Allah lead thee to salvation. It is the root word of the Mahdi and Mohdi.

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From wine [FN#393] I turn and whoso wine-cups swill; * Becoming one of those who deem it ill: Wine driveth man to miss salvation-way, [FN#394] * And opes the gateway wide to sins that kill.

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Note 394TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

Note 394
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.