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34 weakness of the heart, he is ill. There is no wisdom involved in imitating such a person. This matter was discussed during the time of the compan- ions of the Holy Prophet s as. Hadrat Abdullah bin Zubair ra asked Asm a ra about fainting. She replied ْمِ. ي ِ ْطٰن ِ الرَّج ي أَعُوْذ ُ بِالل ِّٰ مِن َ الشَّ [‘I seek ref- uge with Allah from Satan the accursed’]. Then it is narrated that the son of Hadrat Abdullah bin Zubair ra said to his grandmother that I had gone to a place where some people would read the Holy Quran and have fainting fits. Upon hearing this his paternal aunt, [ Hadrat] Asm a ra who was the daughter of Hadrat Abu Bakr ra and a companion of the Holy Prophet s as , responded, ‘If you saw this, you witnessed a satanic act. ’ It is narrated concerning Ibn Sirin, author of the book on the interpretation of dreams, who was the son-in-law of Hadrat Abu Hurairah ra that he was once told about someone who would faint when he heard any verse of the Holy Quran. He replied that he would consider it to be true only if the individual was made to sit upon a high wall, and would then fall down not after just one verse being recited to him, but the entire Quran! Even now, when those who feign unconsciousness and lose control of their senses in such gatherings, it is observed that they fall where they see lots of people sitting, so that they don’t get hurt. It never transpires that they fall off a roof or that they fall where they might suffer a serious injury, although it may some- times occur by mistake.