Note 121 — THE BOOK OF THE MESNEVĪ
James W. (James William) Redhouse translation
Qur’ān, chap. lxxxv., the name of which literally means ”the Towers,” but is also applied to the Signs of the Zodiac. These Christians were the people of Nejrān in south-western Arabia; their persecutor Dhū-Nuwās, a Jew, king of Yaman, some time before Muhammed.