The Nāṣirī Generations 283.3

283.3

— had ninety-nine women — ‘ This my brother hath ninety and nine ewes ’ and Suliman, the Lord of Potentiality, had three hundred and sixty women to wife, and a thousand handmaids.” That assemblage of infidels, by way of annoying, negation, contention, and obstinacy, denied the prophet-ship of Da’ud and Suliman — on whom be peace ! and said : “ They were kings merely.”