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the command of God, the angels called out his name, I was present by his bed-side. He was in a state of semi coma, and Hafiz. Mohamad Ramzan was reciting Sura Yasin, according to the traditional way for such occasions. In his recital, when Hafiz Mohammad. Ramzan reached the verse quoted above, which in the illness of his childhood had brought for him the glad tiding of his recovery, he drew his last breath, and passed to his Creator. . In other words, in the days of his childhood, this particular verse, as dropped on the heart of the Promised Messiah, brought to him the news that he would recover from the illness then, forty years later, in his old age, the same verse opened for him the door to the graciousness and mercy of the Lord in the next life. . Certainly, this is not a matter of mere chance, of mere coincidence. Here one cannot but pause, and reflect. The powers and the ways of Almighty God are indeed most strange, and, for man, past all finding out. Like the pressing of a button, the same switch, so to speak, when touched, brought renewed health and vigour for Mir Muhammad Ishaq; and then forty years later it opened for him the way into the next life, and into the gardens of. Heaven. Both these scenes, for Mir Muhammad. Ishaq, were replete with extraordinary graciousness and mercy from God; while for the 48