Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 301
POSTSCRIPT-SIGN NUMBER 85 301 life is, and who is also observing at this very moment whether I am lying against Him or telling the truth that with this revelation I fell asleep for, perhaps, half an hour and when I woke up suddenly, I found that there was no trace of illness left. All were asleep and I got up and began to walk as a test; it was confirmed that I was perfectly well. On witnessing the great might of my Almighty God, I shed tears in grati- tude to Him, thinking how Mighty our God is and how fortunate we are to believe in His Holy Word, the Holy Quran, and to follow His Messengersa, and how unfortunate, indeed, are those who have failed to believe in this God who possesses such wonders. 85. [EIGHTY-FIFTH] SIGN-Once I fell seriously ill with dysenteric colic. For as many as sixteen days I passed blood in stools. The pain was too severe to describe. During those days the late Sheikh Rahīm Bakhsh, the revered father of Maulawī Abū Saʻīd Muhammad Husain of Batala, visited me to inquire about my health and he saw my criti- cal condition. And I heard him tell some people that this disease was spreading like an epidemic in those days and that he had just come after offering funeral prayers for someone who had died of the same disease in Batala. And it so happened that a person named Muhammad Bakhsh, a barber and a resident of Qadian, fell ill the same day with the same disease and died on the eighth day. After the sixteenth day of my sickness, signs of hopelessness became evident and I noted that some of my relatives were crying behind the wall, and, in accordance with the tradition [linked to the Holy Prophetsa], Sūrah Yā Sīn was recited to me thrice. When my condition deteriorated to this stage, God Almighty put in my heart: 'Stop every other treatment and rub river sand having water with it on your body, while glorifying God and invoking blessings on the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. ' Promptly such sand was procured from the river and I began to rub that sand over my body, simultaneously reciting the prayer سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَبِحَمْدِهِ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ الْعَظِيم ['Holy is Allah and worthy of all Praise; Holy is Allah, the Great'] and