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« den.4 Then she started to recite the following: 1 Al-Walīd b. al-Mughīra was one of the chiefs among the Quraysh and head of the Makhzūm clan. It was he who decided in a council among the Quraysh that the best way to discourage people from following Muḥammad was to call him a sorcerer (sāḥir). 2 This comment would be presenting a quite different perspective from that which prevails in Tustarī’s comments on the Fire in its eschatological meaning, unless it is simply a comment of the ‘keynote’ type. 3 The MSS (Z515, f. 140b, F638, f. 71a and F3488, f. 324a) appear to have mafāza, meaning a waterless desert place, instead »