Here he lay several days, and its ever-increasing loathsomeness need not be described.

No wonder he cried: "Love ye the Lord Jesus Christ according as He hath loved us, and given himself to die for us.
Think of me, O ye that pass by; have pity upon me, and deliver me from these sufferings." A certain priest, who had been a former friend of Asaad, was touched with compassion, and by perseverance succeeded in once more opening his prison doors, and taking off his chains.

But he also became suspected in consequence of his kindness to Asaad, and it is not known how long the sufferer was allowed this partial freedom.

One of his brothers visited him in 1828, and found him inclosed within four solid stone walls, as in a sepulchre "full of all uncleanness." In 1829, there appears not to have been any mitigation of his sufferings.

For three years or more, the priestly despot had him under his heel, and inflicted upon him the greatest amount of suffering compatible with the continuance of life.
His death is supposed to have occurred in October, 1830.