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To Bury the Hairs and Fingernails

alkafi-12694Vol. 6, p. 493

فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ- أَ لَمْ نَجْعَلِ الْأَرْضَ كِفاتاً أَحْياءً وَ أَمْواتاً[3] قَالَ دَفْنُ الشَّعْرِ وَ الظُّفُرِ.

“About the meaning of the words of Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious, ’Have We not made the earth a collector (homes) of dead and living/ (77:25) abu ’Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ’It is a reference to burying of the hairs and fingernails/”