If you heard a child give detailed information about a dead man’s life
that he could not seemingly have known through normal means, would you
believe he is that man’s reincarnation?
Psychologist Dr.
Erlendur Haraldsson, professor emeritus at the University of Iceland in
Reykjavik, has long studied reincarnation. He has highlighted
a case he began investigating in 2000 in which a boy named Nazih
Al-Danaf gave many correct details about his purported past-life
incarnation.
Dr. Haraldsson worked with a local researcher, Majd
Abu-Izzeddin, in Lebanon to interview the boy’s family members and the
family of the deceased man Nazih may have been. All witnesses were
interviewed multiple times several months apart, and the story remained
by and large the same. The most striking testimony came from the dead
man’s wife, who tested the boy’s knowledge of her life with her husband.
First Talk of Another Life
At the age of about one and a
half, Nazih told his mother, “I am not small, I am big. I carry two
pistols. I carry four hand-grenades. I am ‘qabadai’ (a fearless strong
person). Don’t be scared by the hand-grenades. I know how to handle
them. I have a lot of weapons. My children are young and I want to go
and see them.”
He used words his parents didn’t expect him to
know at that age, showed an unusual interest in cigarettes and whisky,
talked of a mute friend who had only one hand, said he had a red car,
and said he died when people came to shoot at him. He said he was taken
in an ambulance to the hospital, and was given an anesthesia shot in his
arm on the way. He asked to go to his home in Qaberchamoun, a small
town that is about 10.5 miles (17 kilometers) away.
Nazih has
family near Qaberchamoun, but had never been in the town itself and
didn’t know anyone from the town. After years of pestering, his parents
finally took him to Qaberchamoun when he was 6 years old, in 1998. Some
of his sisters went too.
Finding the House, Talking to His ‘Wife’
They
arrived at an intersection of six roads in Qaberchamoun. Nazih pointed
to one and said to follow it. He then instructed his father to wait for
the next fork in the road, then go up to where his house is. His father,
Sabir Al-Danaf, did as the boys said. He was eventually forced to stop
the car, because the road was wet and became difficult to drive on.
Nazih jumped out and ran on ahead. His father followed him, and the
women got out to talk to a local man while waiting for Nazih and Sabir
to return.
As the women described what Nazih had told them, the
man was stunned. The details matched his deceased father. Dr. Haraldsson
interviewed this man, Kamal Khaddage, whose father, Fuad Assad
Khaddage, had died many years earlier.
Nazih was unable to
recognize any of the houses ahead, so he and his father returned to the
car. Khaddage asked his mother, Najdiyah, to come speak to the boy.
Having heard that the boy may be her husband’s reincarnation, she tested
him.
She asked him: “Who built the foundation of this gate at
the entrance of this house?” Nazih replied: “A man from the Faraj
family.” This was correct.
She asked him if she had had any
accident when they were living at the house in Ainab. Nazih said she had
dislocated her shoulder one morning. He took her to the doctor when he
got home from work, and she had a cast on for a while. This was correct.
She asked him if he remembered how their daughter, Fairuz, had
become ill. He said, “She was poisoned from my medication and I took her
to the hospital.” This was correct.
Nazih went to a particular
cupboard of his own accord and said that that’s where he had kept his
weapons, though none were in there at the time. That was where Fuad had
kept his weapons. The boy asked Fuad’s widow if she remembered how their
car had stopped twice on the way from Beirut and Israeli soldiers had
helped them start it again. This had indeed happened. The boy mentioned a
barrel in the garden he used to teach his wife to shoot, and ran out to
see if it was still there. It was.
Najdiyah showed Nazih a
photograph of Fuad and asked: “Who is this?” The boy replied: “This is
me, I was big but now I am small.”
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