And do not say of those slain in God's way, that is, [those] rendered annihilated, their souls slain in the wayfaring along the path of Oneness, dead in terms of their caprice, as the Messenger of God said: 'Die before you die'. 'They are dead', that is, they are incapacitated and needy; rather they are living, with their Lord through real life and the everlasting eternal life of God, the witnesses of God through essential presence, empowered by Him, but you are not aware, because of the blindness of your insight and your privation from the light by which the hearts are able to see the individuals of the world of the Holy and the realities of the spirits.