The Zat, the primal Intelligence, becomes captive in knowledge; and pleasure, birth and death, are experienced by the intelligence in this capacity which we call life. Death, in point of fact, does not belong to the soul, and so it does not belong to the person. Death comes to what the person knows, not to the person himself. Life lives, death dies. But the mind which has not probed the depths of the secret of life becomes perplexed and unhappy over the idea of death. A person once went to a Sufi and asked him what happened after death. He said, "Ask this question of someone who will die, of some mortal being, which I am not.'