"And like the dead of Ind I do not fear To go to thee in flames; the most austere Angel of fire a softer tooth and tongue Hath he than dreadful Munker and Nakir."
— Sati (practice)

January 1, 1970

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al-Ma'arri, Abu 'L-ala Ahmad b. Abdallah al-Ma'arri (973-1057), From Nicholson, R. A. Studies in Islamic Poetry. Cambridge, 1921. as quoted in Ibn Warraq, Why I am not a Muslim, 1995. p 284 ff