yet when we decreed that he should die nothing showed them that he was dead except an earthworm that gnawed away his staff. and when he fell to the ground those invisible beings saw clearly that had they but understood the reality which was be­yond the reach of their perception they would not have continued in the shameful suffering 
فلما قضينا عليه الموت ما دلهم على موته إلا دابة الأرض تأكل منسأته فلما خر تبينت الجن أن لو كانوا يعلمون الغيب ما لبثوا في العذاب المهين