So he went back to his teacher saying, "Now I should like to see hell." The murshid said, "Yes, this is the way you should meditate in order to see hell." And then the mureed did this, and he saw in a trance that there was certainly such a place, but there was no fire or snakes or serpents or thorns or tortures or imps or flames such as have been described to people throughout the ages. So he could not understand whether his vision was right or wrong; and he went back to the teacher, and said, "I have seen in this way: I have not seen in heaven the things that are promised, nor have I seen in hell the things which are foretold as being there."