Death and wounds we receive on the battlefield are called in the East Shahadiat, that means that a higher degree of piety or virtue was given to them. It may surprise a spiritual person who is kind, mild, good, that a higher degree of virtue should be given to one who wishes to kill another. The mystic does not look at it in that way. He looks upon it with the consideration that he who gives his life in battle, gives it not for his individual self. Man usually gives his life for his own purpose, for his own benefit. All his life he is striving to accomplish his own aim. He may commit suicide, he may die with the vision of the self-benefit before his eyes. The one who gives his life in battle, gives it, not for himself, but for those for whom he has fought, that means for the whole nation. Therefore for many, and where there are many, there is the thought of God. He has given his life for God.