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Yaghuth The Madhhij[1] as well as the people of
Jurash[2] adopted Yaghuth[3] (as their god).
Said the poet:
"May Wadd keep thee and bless thee! For to us it is unlawful With women to daily and wanton; Thus our faith hath resolved[4]." Said another: "Yaghuth led us unto the Murad[5], And we vanquished them before the morning." | |
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FOOTNOTES 1. Ishtiqaq p 237. 2. Buldan vol ii pp 55-66. 3. Ryckmans vol. i, p. 16; Wellhausen, pp 19-22. 4. The verse is by al-Nabighah al-Dhnbyani cf Le Dinan de Nabiga Dhobyani ed and tr. Hartwig Derenbourg, Paris 1869 also C. A. Nallino Il verso d'an-Naligah sul dio Wadd,' in Rendironte della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, ser. v, vol. XXIX (1920) pp 283 290. 5. Ishtiqaq p 238; Nashwan ibn-Said al Himyari Muntakhabat fi Akhbar al-Yaman min Kitab Shams al-Ulum wa-Dama Kalam al-'Arab min at Kulum ed. 'Azimuddin Ahmad, Leyden, 1916 p 97. | ||
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