into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth' (John xviii. 37).
'But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God' (John viii. 40).
'The Jews answered, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.... They cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him! Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. Then delivered he him therefore to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away' (John xix. 7-19).

bb. Ibn Hisham, in narrating the attempt made by a Jewess in Khaibar to poison Mohammed, transcribes the following passage from Ibn Ishak, 'Merwan Ibn Othman related to me that when Om Bishr visited Mohammed in his last illness, he said to her, "I feel now how my heart-artery is bursting in consequence of the bit I ate with thy son (or brother) Bishr at Khaibar." From this, let the Moslems infer that God, after having honoured Mohammed with the prophetic mission, also permitted him to die a martyr.' (I. I. and I. H.)

'According to a sound tradition, Aisha, the faithful, said, The Prophet used to utter the following magic sentence as a charm over the sick:

Move far away this ill! 0 Lord of men, do heal!
Thou art the healer sure No cure, except thy cure!
God, with thy healing heal, That we relieved may feel.

Whenever his Excellency was taken ill, he charmed himself with this spell, whilst passing his blessed hand over his noble body. During his last illness, when it had become very severe, I pronounced this prayer, and wanted to pass his blessed hand over his body; but he drew his hand away from me and said, "May the Lord pardon me and join me with the higher companions"' (R.)

e. As the sufferings in their death were greater than other men's, so also is their reward.

aa. 'And, being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground' (Luke xxii. 44).
'After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst,' etc. (John xix. 28-30.)
'Being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name' (Phil. ii. 8, 9).
'He, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God' (Heb. xii. 2).

bb. 'It is recorded that Aisha, the faithful, related what follows: The Apostle of God showed much restlessness in his last illness; unable to remain in his bed, he turned from one side to the other. We said to him, "O Apostle of God, if one of us, when ill, had shown such restlessness and wish for change, thou surely wouldst have been angry with us." To this his Excellency replied thus, "O Aisha, my illness is extremely painful: the truth is, that the Most High sends exceedingly painful and severe afflictions to the just and to the believers; but that no affliction or trouble befalls the believer, without God, in return, raising him a degree higher and blotting out one of his sins." Aisha also said, "I have never seen in any man a more painful and violent illness than the Prophet's."'

Abu Sayid narrated, 'When we went to the Prophet, he was covered with velvet, and we felt his fever-heat through that velvet; and on account of that violent heat, we could not endure laying our hands on his blessed body; and we, being astonished, said, "Great God, what fever is this! "His Excellency answered, "There is no one more afflicted than a prophet: but just as their afflictions are multiplied, so also is their reward." The mother of Bishr Ibn Bara said, "I went to the apostle of God in his last illness, and finding him in an exceedingly hot fever, I said to him, 'O Apostle of God, thou hast a fever such as I have never seen in any one else.' His Excellency replied, On this account our reward also will be double that of other men."' (R.)