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102 mosque and none of the people who knew me could tell by any signs that I was eating nothing. ” He contin- ued: “Whenever God Almighty has raised a person for a certain task, He has granted them with the appropri- ate faculties in order to prepare them, and make avail- able to them the necessary ingredients that enable the fulfilment of the goal or task at hand. Those people who do not truly possess the necessary qualities inher- ently by nature and then indulge in religious exercises, ultimately turn mad and lose their senses. ” In this con- text also, His Holiness as said: “Physicians associate cer- tain natural factors with sleep. However, I observe that when it is the will of God Almighty to speak with me, at such a time, though I am in a state of complete wake- fulness, God suddenly induces in me a state of drowsi- ness and light slumber, and pulls me out of this physical realm completely, so that I am able to relate to the spir- itual realm. Then, after God has finished speaking, He returns my physical consciousness and senses so that I, as the recipient of revelation, may preserve it. Then, He casts a state of drowsiness over me again, whereafter He awakens me once again, so that I am able to memorise the revelation. In this manner, therefore, on certain occasions, this will happen even fifty times. This is the power of God. He is above and beyond the phenom- enon of sleep as we observe in nature, and physicians and doctors cannot understand its deeper essence. ”