[FN#160] i.e. those whose business it is to compose or compile stories, verses, etc., for the entertainment of kings and grandees.
[FN#161] i.e. that his new and damnable custom. The literal meaning of bidah is "an innovation or invention, anything new;" but the word is commonly used in the sense of "heresy" or "heterodox innovation," anything new being naturally heretical in the eyes of the orthodox religionist.
[FN#162] i.e. women.
[FN#163] Breslau Text, vol. xii. pp. 394-398.
[FN#164] i.e. his apathy or indifference to the principles of right and wrong and the consequences of his wicked behaviour.
[FN#165] i.e. in a state of reprobation, having incurred the wrath of God.
[FN#166] hath mentioned the office of vizier.
[FN#167] Koran xx. 30.
[FN#168] i.e. none had been better qualified to dispense with a vizier than he.
[FN#169] i.e. the essential qualification.