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"The second Word of Witnessing is witnessing that the apostolate belongs to the apostle, and that God sent the unlettered Qurayshite prophet, Mohammed, with his apostolate to the totality of Arabs and foreigners and Jinn and men. And He abrogated by his law the other Laws except so much of them as He confirmed; and made him excellent over the rest of the prophets and made him the Lord of Mankind and declared incomplete the Faith that consists in witnessing the Unity, which is saying, * There is no god except God, so long as there is not joined that of witnessing to the Apostle, which is saying Mohammed is the Apostle of God. And He made obligatory upon the creation belief in Him, as to all which He narrated concern ing the things of this world and the next. And then He would not accept the faith of a creature, so long as he did not believe in that which the Prophet narrated concerning things after death. The first of these is the question of Munkar and Nakir; these are two awful and terrible beings who will cause the creature to sit up in his grave, complete, both soul and body; and they will ask him, Who is thy Lord, and what is thy religion (din), and who is thy Prophet? They are the two testers in the grave and their questioning is the first testing after death. And that he should be lieve in the punishment of the grave that it is a Verity and that its judgment upon the body and the soul is just, according to what God wills. And