পৃষ্ঠা 72: ষষ্ঠ অধ্যায়: কবরের শাস্তি ও শান্তির প্রামাণিক বিস্তারিত বিবরণ

The narrator from the lower quarters said: There was among us a grave-robber who had become blind and used to beg from people. He would say, 'Who will give me something so that I may inform him of an astonishing matter?' Then he would say, 'Who will give me more?' So he was given something while I was beside him, watching him. He then uncovered his eyes, and behold, they had pierced clean through to the back of his neck like two hollow tubes, such that one could see what lay behind the back of his head directly from the front of his face! He then said, 'Shall I not inform you? I was a grave-robber in my town until my notoriety spread, and I struck such terror into the people that I paid no heed to anyone. The judge of the town fell ill with an ailment from which he feared death, so he sent for me and said, "I wish to purchase my grave's safety from you, and here are one hundred dinars as a guarantee." I took them, and he was cured of that illness. Later, he fell ill again and died. I presumed that the payment had been solely for the first illness, so I went and dug up his grave. All of a sudden, the grave had become a dungeon of torment; the judge was sitting upright with disheveled hair, his eyes bloodshot like two small bowls. A trembling seized my knees, and suddenly a strike came as if from two fingers, while a speaker proclaimed, "O enemy of Allah, do you seek to pry into the secrets of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic?"'