"After the noon-meal, sleep, although for moments twain; After the night-meal, walk, though but two steps be ta'en; And after swiving stale, though but two drops thou drain."
[FN#404] Arab. "Sar í dah" (Thar í dah), also called "ghaut"=crumbled bread and hashed meat in broth; or bread, milk and meat. The Sar í dah of Ghass á n, cooked with eggs and marrow, was held a dainty dish: hence the Prophet's dictum.
[FN#405] Koran v. 92. "Lots"=games of chance and "images"=statues.
[FN#406] Koran ii. 216. The word "Maysar" which I have rendered "gambling" or gaming (for such is the modern application of the word), originally meant what St. Jerome calls and explains thereby the verse (Ezek. xxi. 22), "The King held in his hand the lot of Jerusalem" i.e. the arrow whereon the city-name was written
