Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 239
14 June 1905 239 ی ُھَُوَ ال َّشَاِفِ ی ُھَُوَ ال َّشَاِفِ [ Howash-Sh a f i —He is the Healer] Medicine and treatments were being discussed. The Promised Messiah as said: These are all conjectural statements. The cure is what God Almighty carries out within. A doctor who claims to have a certain cure goes beyond their rank and position. Hippocrates wrote that a patient came to him who he thought would die within a week, but was still alive 30 years later. Certain medicines are compatible with certain tempera- ments. For the same disease, one medicine may be beneficial for one person but harmful for another. During difficult times, even the ailment cannot be diagnosed, and if it is diagnosed, the treatment does not come to mind. Therefore, when the Muslims inherited these sciences, they added one thing to every matter. At the time of examining the [patient’s] pulse, they began saying: 1 َكَنٰحْبُس اَل َمْلِع ۤاَنَل اَّلِا اَم اَنَتْمَّلَع َكَنٰحْبُس اَل َمْلِع ۤاَنَل اَّلِا اَم اَنَتْمَّلَع And at the time of writing the prescription, they started writ- ing: ْ ِی ِف ا َّشَ َ ال َو ُ ُھ ْ ِی ِف ا َّشَ َ ال َو ُ ُھ [He is the Healer]. Unparalleled Support of Islam A letter from an Englishman from Palampur was read before the Promised Messiah as by Maulaw i Muhammad ‘Ali, MA. The gist was, ‘I am delighted by Islam and I have never seen a defence of Islam as 1. Holy art Thou! No knowledge have we except what Thou hast taught us ( S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:33). [Publisher]