Only Allah knows the truth!' 'I should like to speak to this Muhammad abu Hasan.' 'Upon my head; I go to fetch him,' answered Casim, touching his brow in token of obedience.
When he was gone, Suleyman observed significantly: 'Have naught to do with all these fathers of kirats.

When once the word "kirat" is mentioned, flee the place, for you may be assured that it is the abode of all bedevilment.

When once a man is father of but one or two kirats, he has the power of forty thousand for unreasoning annoyance.' 'And what, in mercy's name, is a kirat ?' I questioned.
'A kirat,' replied Rashid, as usual eager to explain, 'is that term into which all things visible and invisible are resolved and subdivided secretly, or may be subdivided at a person's pleasure.

A kirat is that which has no real existence unless a group of men agree together saying: "It is here or there." A kirat----' Suleyman cut short his explanation, saying simply: 'A kirat is the twenty-fourth part of anything.

If my soul is sick, I ask the doctor: "How many kirats of hope ?" and according to his answer "four" or "twenty" I feel gladness or despair.