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Well, Jafar doesn't know, so I wouldn't take his word for anything other than dramatic verbiage. He just claims that it was his anger. We know that magic can not bring back the dead, so he was likely just unconscious. So I expect that the "spirit dust" simply revived him to regain consciousness.