‘In ancient times, especially in the civilization of Egypt, the fall equinox was considered as the celestial day. On this date, the day and night have equal hours and the time prior to night was interpreted as time of death and darkness. Another interpretation of that hour is that every organism has to die before being born, there is darkness before light.’

The maulana in Chor Bazaar read that in the Kitab-ul-Hikmat Bain-ul-Aafaq, and he kept pondering on it for a long time.

There was time left in the vanishing of the day into the darkness of death. Asrar was still staring at that girl. She looked oblivious of everything around her. He had never seen anyone so absent from the world before. He thought that maybe she was mad or under some spell. He said to himself, ‘Which mad person dresses so well?’ He noticed happiness and a smile on her face. He thought that it was possible that she had never got a chance to get drenched in the rain in this way before. Such thoughts came to his mind.

‘A thought never dies. It enters into oblivion and stays there alive,’ the Sufi had said to the aged man in Chor Bazaar.

Asrar got up, took his umbrella and opened it. The moment he reached the girl, the sky turned dark and the night began. At that time Mumba Devi was not in her temple. She had crossed the Arabian Sea to enter the Gwadar area of Baluchistan, to go to Chabahar, in erstwhile Persia. The two were at a distance of 720 kilometres, but Mumba Devi reached the place within the blink of an eye. Chabahar is a coastal area in present-day Iran forty kilometres from the temple of Enki, which had been given protection secretly by a tribe of Zartashtoon people for the last 1500 years. Enki means the god of earth. The temple had an idol that was thousands of years old and that had been divided into seven pieces by the tribe to save it from invaders and government officials. This clan lived only in deserts and dormant areas. They had their own holy book which had a great resemblance to Zuboor (Book of Psalms). Enki had the knowledge of soul and cultures. He was also considered the god of sweet and fresh underground water and of semen.