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Hazrat Jarah-b-Ali Aufa led prayers in the most humble spirit. One day when he was reciting "Remember when the trumpet will be blown' he at once fell down senseless and expired immediately. Hazrat Omar once heard a man reciting this verse : The punishment of your Lord must come and there is nobody to remove it. He at once raise loud shriek and fell down senseless. He was brought to his house and he suffered for nearly one month. Hazrat Abu Zarr once heard a verse recited by Saleh Mari and raised a shriek and then breathed his last. Imam Shafeyi once heard a Qazi reciting this verse : It is such a day when they will not talk and they will not be given permission to raise an excuse — at once he fell down unconscious. Hazrat Ali-b-Fuzail once heard a man reciting this verse — day when the people will stand up before the Lord of the universe, he fell down senseless.
This is the condition of the Sufis also. The sage Shibi was praying behind an Imam in Ramazan and the Imam was reciting : If I will,

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I can take back surely what I revealed to you. Immediately Shibli raised a shriek and his face became changed. The sage Junaid said : I said once that a man remained unconscious before the sage Sarri Sakti. He said to me : This man fell senseless on hearing the erses of the Quran. I said : Rectie to him the verses again. When they were recited, he regained consciousness. Sibli said to him : Where have you found this ? I said : Israil lost his sight owing to the loss of his son and regained it by reason of his son Sibli thought it good and hinted at the poetry recited by Junaid :

I drank it again and found my salvation.
I got taste and drank with satisfaction.

A certain sage said : One .night, I was reading this verse, 'Every life shall taste of death. I recited it again and again, Suddenly an unknown voice said to me. : How long will you read this verse ? You have killed thereby thirty four jin who did not.
raise their heads upwards from their birth till now* Whenever Hazrat Ibrahim-b-Adham heard any man reciting this verse- When the sky will be rent asunder' is limbs trembled till he was restored to his former position.

If the recitation of the verses of the Quran does not cause any effect in mind, he is like a man who hears nothing though he is called and said something. He is deaf, dumb and ignorant.

It has been stated that Abul Hasan Nuri was once in a company who were quarreling about a matter. He was then silent. Afterwards he raised up his head and recitedthe following poem:-