But she is in the land of silence and in the land of night.

Nothing can she see, and nothing hear, and never has her voice opened the curtains of the air, for she is blind and dumb and deaf." "Merciful Allah!" cried the Mahdi.
"Ah! is her state so terrible?
I thought you would think it so.

Yes, for all she is so beautiful, she is only as a creature of the fields that knows not God." "Allah preserve her!" cried the Mahdi.
"And she is smitten for my sin, for the Lord revealed it to me in the vision, and my soul trembles for her soul.

But if God has washed me with water should not she also be clean ?" "God knows," said the Mahdi.

"He gives no rewards for repentance." "But listen!" said Israel.