Exiting: Qabas, Volume 3

As I was seated in remembrance and contemplation one night, in front of me appeared a great stag, shining and shimmering in whiteness, and there was a concentration of brilliant white light above its head. The stag was some feet away and was moving toward me. As it got closer, I could see that the white light on its head was emanating from a flaming brand, a torch, lit, glowing with brilliant white star-like light. The flaming brand, 'qabas' in Quranic Arabic, was as if a projection from th...