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For 1,260 days, each day being a year- that is, for the duration of the Islamic Dispensation- all that these two Persons had established as the foundations of the religion of God was forfeited by their followers. To such an extent were the traces of human virtues- which are the bestowals of God and which constituted the spirit of this religion- erased that truthfulness, justice, love, concord, purity, sanctity, detachment, and all the heavenly attributes vanished from their midst, and what remained of the religion was mere prayer and fasting. This condition lasted for 1,260 years, which corresponds to the Dispensation of the Qur'an. It was as though these two Persons had died and their bodies were left without a soul
(11:25)
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