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Rh them to their respective bodies. Upon the earth the first whom God will raise shall be Mahomet, upon whose shouting, "There is no deity but Allah, Mohamer is the apostle of Allah," all the believers shall come to life. One of the signs of the last day is that the sun shall rise from the west and go to the east.

The Judgment Day. God will then prepare a vast plain where all creatures will be summoned to give an account of their past conduct. The duration of that day shall be as long as a century, during which time the Giaours shall sigh and suffer great tribulation and anguish. As to the Moslems it will not be so, because those whose good works outweigh their recorded bad actions, shall immediately enter into Paradise; and those who are found lacking in the balance shall be favored by allowing their five large grave stones to be put on the scale of good actions and weighed again; if he still lacks, which will be very seldom, the good actions of the friends done in his behalf shall be brought forth and added upon the scale; also the prayers offered by his tomb shall be introduced to the account, and, in spite of all these favors, if his sins outweigh, he shall be sent to a temporary purgatory to be punished for the balance account; after which, through the intercession of his prophet, he shall be admitted into Paradise and enjoy the full pleasures thereof. Those whose scales shall be equally poised are to be detained in the middle space between Paradise and hell and pass their years of penance in that solitary place in a neutral condition.