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Miscellaneous Signs 197 my face with it. In this manner I would be healed. . Accordingly, water was quickly brought from the river with some sand and I started doing as I had been directed. My condition at the time was such that I felt a fire leaping out of every strand of my hair and my whole body was in terrible pain. At that time the thought involuntarily came to me that death would be preferable to this condition, for it would bring relief. . But when I started doing as I had been directed, I call. God to witness in Whose hands is my life, that every time I recited these blessed words and wiped my body with the water from the river, I felt the fire departing from my body and a coolness and peace taking its place. The water in the vessel had not yet been used up when I felt that my illness had completely departed from me and, after sixteen days, I at last slept peacefully. The next morning I received this revelation: وَإِنْ كُنتُمْ فِي رَيْبٍ مِّمَّا نَزَّلْنَا عَلَى عَبْدِنَا فَأْتُوا بِشِفَاءٍ مِّنْ مِّثْلِهِ 'If you are in doubt as to the sign that We have shown by granting you recovery, then do cite a cure like this one. ' There are more than fifty people who are aware of this episode. [Tiryāq-ul-Qulub, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 15, pp. 208-209]. I once suffered from severe toothache and couldn't find a moment's peace. I inquired of someone if there was any cure, but he told me that the only cure for an aching tooth was to remove it. But this I shrank from. . I was sitting on the floor feeling quite restless and there was a bedstead nearby when I felt a little drowsiness coming over me. In my restlessness, I