Mirror of Charm and Beauty — Page 47
which capacity no Arya or Christian missionary ever proved to be any kind of match for him. . In the days of his childhood, Hazrat Mir. Mohammad Ishaq fell ill. His condition became serious, and the doctors lost hope. When the. Promised Messiah offered prayers for his recovery, he received a Revelation from God, while he was still engaged in his suplications. The words of the Revelation, translated into English, were: "Thy prayer has been accepted, and the gracious God conveys to thee the glad tiding in regard to the recovery of this child. " Hazrat. Mir Muhammad Ishaq then was restored to perfect health, although, at one stage, his medical attendants had given up hope. He lived for forty years after this, to render signal service to Ahmadiyyat and Islam, and to sow the seed of many kinds of good in this world. He passed away nearly at the age of 55. "All that is on it (earth) will pass away And there will remain only the Person of thy Lord, Master of Glory and Honour. " (the Holy Quran 55:27, 28). . But in connection with this incident I desire to point to a circumstance which, certainly, is of the nature of an extremely interesting, and delicate, and subtle miracle. Forty years after this event, when the time came for Mir sahib to pass off into the next life, and when, under 47