بخش 45 - خواندن آن دو ساحر پدر را از گور و پرسیدن از روان پدر حقیقت موسی علیه السلام

Afterwards they said, “Come, O mother, where is our father's grave? Do thou show us the way.”

She took them and showed the way to his grave: then they kept a three days' fast for the sake of the King.

After that they said, “O father, the King in consternation hath sent us a message

(To say) that two men have brought him to sore straits and have destroyed his prestige with the army.

There is not with them any weapons or soldiers; nothing but a rod, and in the rod is a calamity and bane.

Thou art gone into the world of the righteous, though to outward seeming thou liest in a tomb.

If that is magic, inform us; and if it be divine, O spirit of our father,

(In that case) also inform us, so that we may bow down (before them) and bring ourselves in touch with an elixir.

We are despairing, and a hope has come; we are banished, and Mercy has drawn us (towards favour).”