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a quickening Spirit iinmediately springs into life to name the bahiratman as His slayer!
Such is the magical effect of the dead nafs. No sooner is the soul touched (characterised) by the dead nofs than is it electrified into Life. This is how the dead are raised to life! Peradventure ye may understand.
Perhaps it will not be quite uninteresting to give the whole story of this red heifer. It is thus related in Sale's Koran (see pp. 8 anii 9):
A certain mau at his deatb ieft his son, then a child, a cow
calf, which wandered in the desert till he came of age; at which time his rnother told him the heifer was his, and bid him fetch her, and sell her for three pieces of gold. When the young man came to tho market with his heifer, an angel in the shape of a man accosted him, and bid him six pieces of gold for her, but he would not take the money till he had asked his mother's consent; which when he had obtained, he returned to the market place, and met the argel, who now offered hiu twice as much for the heifer, provided he would say nothing of it to his mother but the young man refusing went and acquainted her with the additional offer. The womari perceiving it was an angtl, bid her son yo back and asks him what must be done with the heifer, whereapou the angel told the young inan that in a little time the children of Israel would buy that heifer of hin: at any price. And soon after it happened tbat an Israelite, named Hannmiel, was killed by a relation of bis, who, to prevent discovery, conveyed the body to a place considerably distant from
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