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33. Then the Promised Messiah prayed for the recovery of the boy with a great intensity of feeling; and under some Divine inspiration he also administered some medicine to him; and Lo and Behold, against all expectations the boy was fully cured, and he lived thereafter for a long number of years. (Tatimmah Haqeeqatul Wahyee, page 48). When Major Syed Habeebullah Shah, a well known. Ahmadi, was a student at the Medical College, Lahore, in connection with a lecture on Hydrophobia in the class, he related to a classmate the incident of Abdul Kareem's cure. But that student, from some prejudice against the. Ahmadiyya Movement, began to insist that treatment of Hydrophobia was possible in modern medical science. . Syed Habeebulla Shah asked the opinion of his professor on the point, at a time when the other student was also present; and the professor, an Englishman, at once replied, without the slightest hesitation, that "if a case bitten by a mad dog developed Hydrophobia, nothing on earth could save him. ". Here it should be carefully borne in mind that a. Miracle does not mean that an occurrence of the kind, or a performance of the kind, would be impossible for all men, for all times, and under all circumstances. It is quite possible that a particular thing should be known to be impossible at one time and under certain circumstances but if at such a time and under similar circumstances a man annointed by God and appointed to a Divine Mission should encompass it, it would surely be considered as constituting a miracle, though subsequently the doing of such a thing may become possible for ordinary men, through the advance of human knowledge. In regard to treatment of the various diseases in general there is a hadeeth of the Holy Prophet that "For every ailment there is a remedy, except for death which is inevitable. ' Therefore, if at some future time, a treatment for Hydrophobia should come to be discovered, the grandeur of the miracle witnessed at the "