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the divine road are dead : they are alive near their Lord 

 and are sustained by him." 1 In regard to the miserable 

 spirits, the apostle of God came to the infidels who had 

 been slain in the battle of Bader, 2 and called upon each 

 by name, and said, " ! such a one, son of such a one, I 

 have found the victory and triumph which my Lord pro- 

 mised. And you, have you found that latter end and tor- 

 ment of which the Lord assured you, or have you not found 

 it ?" His honored companions having remarked to him, 

 " they are dead and how can they hear and how can they 

 speak ?", the glory of the world replied, " By the truth of 

 God who has commissioned me to be a true prophet, they 

 are better able to hear than yourselves : there is only this 

 difference, that they are not able to answer." And the 

 prophet of God declared that the spirits of martyrs are in 

 lanterns under the empyrean : and according to another ac- 

 count that they are suspended to the fruits of the trees of 

 Paradise in the craws of green birds. In brief, whoever 

 will study carefully the verses of the Koran, the Traditions 

 and recollections that have reached us respecting death, and 

 will consider the well substantiated accounts of the move- 

 ments of the dead in grave yards, he will know, in a man- 

 ner that should remove all doubt, that the dead clearly do 

 not become non-existent. . . . 



Hence it happens, that when a person becomes breath- 

 less and is entranced, as sometimes happens in the first ex- 

 ercises among the Soofees, he has a delightful vision of the 

 state after death, notwithstanding the animal spirit contin- 

 ues in the enjoyment of health. Yet if, while in that state, 

 fear and terror should happen to predominate aud deprive 

 him of feeling and motion, and if he become so far like 

 the dead that he perceives no external object, the same 



1 S. a : 163. 



1 First victory of the Mussulmans near Medina. 



