Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 307
24 April 1908 307 24 April 1908 Cure for Illnesses as a Product of Prayer The Promised Messiah as said: When there is mubram qaza [an immutable decree] in the case of some illness, then no one has any recourse, but when this is not the case, Allah the Exalted does respond to lots of focused prayers and supplications. And sometimes it also happens that the case is very much like mubram [immutable], and God has the power to avert even this. This condition is so dangerous that no research can give any guidance and even the physicians declare it to be incurable. However, the Sign of the special favour of God is that better circumstances continue becoming available and the condition [of the patient] keeps improving day by day. Otherwise, the condition of the patient keeps dete- riorating day by day and things keep happening in some such way that: وجں وجں دوا یک ا ي رمض ڑباتھ گ [‘The more the treatment was administered, the worse the illness got. ’] 1 The Promised Messiah as said: When I supplicate for patients, many of whom have been declared incurable by their physicians and there appears to be no chance of their survival, Allah the Exalted restores them to 1. This couplet was read by Dr. Khalifah Rasheed-ud-Din, Assistant Surgeon, and he had also commented that the couplet by the Promised Messiah as is, in fact, ا وُجں وُجں دوا دی ي رمض اتٹھگ گ ‘The illness continued receding as the medicine was administered. ’ [Editor]