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The Hātif is a being that is heard, but not seen; and is often mentioned by Arab writers. It is generally the communicator of some intelligence in the way of advice, or direction, or warning. (See Lane’s Modern Egyptians; Lane’s Notes on the Arabian Nights.)

GENTILES. Arabic Ummī (امى‎, from umm, “a mother”); pl. ummīyūn, lit. “Ignorant as new-born babes.” Hebrew ‏גּוֹיִם‎. According to al-Baiẓāwī, all the people of the earth who do not possess a divine Book. In the Qurʾān, the term is specially applied to the idolators of Arabia.

Sūrah lxii. 2: “He (God) it is who sent unto the Gentiles a Prophet, amongst them to recite to them His signs and to purify them, and to teach them the Book, the wisdom, although they were before in obvious error.”

GEORGE, St. [JIRJIS, AL-KHIZR.]

AL-G͟HĀBAH (الـغـابة‎). “The desert.” A name given to the open plain near al-Madīnah.

G͟HABN (غبن‎). Fraud or deceit in sales.

G͟HADDĀR (غدار‎). A species of demon said to be found on the borders of al-Yaman. [GENII.]