And so the Companions of the Prophet hearing this explanation of the word Qav, and not understanding what was meant, fancied it must be a mountain, or succession of great mountains, surrounding the world and making it dark.
===Haman was Pharaoh's viceroy===
Thus, for-instance, the Qur'am says that Haman was Pharaoh's wazir, which is also said by the Jewish midrash.<ref>Cf. Tisdall's "The Book" of the "People of the Book"</ref>
