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of the Holy Prophets buried at Baghdad is to be believed and given any consideration, then the question which one would ask him is as to why was the body of the son Hadhrat Jabira, allegedly buried at Baghdad preserved while that of his father. Hadhrat 'Abd Allahra who incidentally died in battle and was a shaheed of the first order, not preserved? Why was it that when. Hadhrat Jabir's grave at Baghdad was opened, 'his body was, allegedly, fresh and appeared alive and his eyes were open and the rays of light coming out of the eyes blinded the eyes of thousands of watchers 103 while when he opened the grave of his father at Uhud, he neither found the body of his father fresh and appear alive nor were there any rays of light coming out of his father's eyes to blind the son? Could the author of Two in. One explain as to how, according to his unsubstantiated report for which he provides no evidence whatsoever, the body of a son is preserved as fresh and alive while according to the substantiated report of the second most reliable book of Islamic literature, the Sahih of Hadhrat Imam Bukharith, the body of the father is not preserved in the same manner?. The basis of Abdul Hafeez's belief in relation to the state of the bodies of shaheeds is neither substantiated by the Holy Quran or Hadeeth nor by facts recorded in Islamic history. In fact, one has to but search the recorded history of the ummah to find that many a shaheed were buried with dismembered bodies and one just hopes that this pir of Gujjo is not so naive as to state that after burial of the shaheeds, their mutilated bodies are restored to their former state when Hadeeth itself declares that those who die in the cause of God shall be restored on the Day of. Resurrection with their wounds intact. For instance, Hadhrat. Muhammadsa declared: 'By Him in Whose hands my soul is! Whoever is wounded in. Allah's cause, and Allah knows well who gets wounded in His cause, will come on the Day of Resurrection with his wounds. having the colour of blood but the scent of musk. '104 103. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, p. 19 35 104. Sahih Bukhari 53. 10