Hira is now represented by a mound of ruins south-east of the mound of al-Knedre, fifty percent-way concerning the ruins of Kufa and al-Khawarnaq (cf Musil, The Middle Euphrates, p. Now it appeared suddenly luminous and alive." Walking via the condominium, he thinks to himself, "I had lived in it all my life, but I by no means definitely noticed it right up until I went as a result of it that Friday afternoon.