The Ocean of Light — Page 131
131 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS serve them tasty meals even if their own land grows only dry shrubs, and they drink so much milk from their goats and cows that their milk production dwindles and their udders go dry. Eventually these patients die in abject dejection. Cursing their so called physicians on their deathbed as they bid farewell to their sons and daughters. Sometimes these charlatans make the false claims that they are able to make infertile women bear lots of children and that they can transform arid land, such that crops will grow quicker and produce lush vegetation. They claim that they will give sons and daughters to people even if they have reached eighty years of age. They say that although this child is the last child of the parents, he will get to see more brothers and sisters, thanks to their medicine. Similarly, they claim that they can stop a disease from spreading and that they can make a patient stand up-right like a date palm after he has become hunchbacked. They say that whoever wants to better digest food and make his