A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 82
82 Arabic as pure and chaste as his, and appointed a very fair and easy mode of adjudging these rewards, but none came forward to claim them, although we find that people daily undertake arduous and hazardous tasks for the sake of earning rewards of much smaller value. God took away their courage and they lost the fluency of their tongues and the charm of their pens. This miracle shall ever serve as a sign for seekers after truth and as a condemnation of his enemies. He showed many miracles of the same kind on different occasions. SECOND MIRACLE. Cure of Incurable Diseases. His second miracle which I desire to relate by way of illustration belongs to that class of miracles whereby diseases which were regarded as incurable by medical skill were cured as the result of his prayers. He had started a school at Quadian with the object of imparting spiritual side by side with secular instruction to the youth of the community. One of the students of this school, Abdul Karim by name, who had come from Yadgir in the territories of His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, a distance of several thousand miles from Quadian, was bitten by a mad dog. He was sent to the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli for treatment, but on his return from that place he was attacked by hydrophobia, and his condition became alarming. A telegram was despatched to Kasauli asking for instructions, but the specialist in charge of the Institute replied, “Sorry, nothing can be done for Abdul Karim. ” The Promised Messiah was much grieved to learn this,