ucified."(48) "Their bodies" means the Religion of God, and "the street"
means in public view. The meaning of "Sodom and Egypt," the place "where
also our Lord was crucified," is this region of Syria, and especially
Jerusalem, where the Umayyads then had their dominions; and it was here
that the Religion of God and the divine teachings first disappeared, and a
body without spirit remained. "Their bodies" represents the Religion of
God, which remained like a dead body without spirit.

"And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see
their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead
bodies to be put in graves."(49)

As it was before explained, in the terminology of the Holy Books three
days and a half signify three years and a half, and three years and a half
are forty and two months, and forty and two months twelve hundred and
sixty days; and as each day by the text of the Holy Book signifies one
year, the meaning is that for twelve hundred and sixty years, which is the
cycle of the Qur'an, the nations, tribes and peoples would look at their
bodies--that is to say, that they would make a spectacle of the Religion of
God: though they would not act in accordance with it, still, they would
not suffer their bodies--meaning the Religion of God--to be put in the
grave. That is to say, that in appearance they would cling to the Religion
of God and not allow it to completely disappear from their midst, nor the
body of it to be entirely destroyed and annihilated. Nay, in reality they
would leave it, while outwardly preserving its name and remembrance.

Those "kindreds, people and nations" signify those who are gathered under
the shadow of the Qur'an, not permitting the Cause and Law of God to be,
in outward appearance, entirely destroyed and annihilated--for there are
prayer and fasting among them--but the fundamental principles of the
Religion of God, which are morals and conduct, with the knowledge of
divine mysteries, have disappeared; the light of the virtues of the world
of humanity, which is the result of the love and knowledge of God, is
extinguished; and the darkness of tyranny, oppression, satanic passions
and desires has become victorious. The body of the Law of God, like a
corpse, has been exposed to public view for twelve hundred and sixty days,
each day being counted as a year, and this period is the cycle of
Muhammad.

The people forfeited all that these two persons had