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I will go to Aza and tell him what Christ did to Lazarus, and how Martha hoped while she wept. Let me go to comfort Aza.
But Havilah forbade him: and when he wept again, his father took him into the house, that he might forget his grief amidst his sports.
When Havilah returned to his friend, he said: It is with the Gospel even as thou hast said. The wisest of men may meditate long on this story of Lazarus, and yet a child can understand it. If my boy were to behold Aza or myself carried to the tomb tomorrow, he would remember that Martha hoped while she wept, and would hope also. I have long believed in all that the Christian Scriptures tell of Lazarus, because it agrees with what our Prophet taught of the state of the dead.
Concerning the state between Death and the Judgment, said Eber, the Christians believe not that any revelation has been given; for we know not even of those whom Jesus raised, or of Jesus himself, what was done when the body lay dead. Of them should we have heard if it had been intended that we should know. — The funeral wail for the daughter of Jairus had only begun when the Lord raised her up: and where her spirit, was when her breath ceased,
