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52 The Souls of Good Men, whether living or dead, have special privileges, as to have communion with Allah, to converse with Mohamet, to be present at distant places at the moment they desire, and to help the weakness of mankind. Many living or martyred Moslem saints are believed to ride on winged camels every Friday and go to Mecca to perform their noon-prayer at the Kabeh, and return the same day to their respective posts or graves. Mollah Hunkiar died 600 years ago, and, buried at Iconium (Asia Minor), is believed to make the same journey riding on a brick wall. Another martyred saint is regularly coming from Persia.

5. Ulemah's Teachings About the Transactions Beyond the Grave.—The Interrogation in the Sepulchre. This will be administered immediately after the burial of every Moslem by two angels upon the following four questions; 1. Who was thy Lord? 2. Who was thy Prophet? 3. Which was thy Religion? and 4. Which was thy Cubla (direction faced while in prayer)? He who will answer, Allah was my Lord, Mohamet my prophet, Islam my religion and Kabeh my Cubla, shall find a great illumination in his grave; but he who shall not make this proper answer shall be involved in darkness until the judgment day.

Resurrection. At the end of the world, when the archangel Israfil shall blow the trumpet, all things, even angels, men and devils, shall be annihilated. Then God will revive in heaven first the "Angel of Death," who will recall all the souls in general and