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40 1879 About three years ago I prayed that people might be inclined to help towards the publication of this book. 47 Thereupon …I received a revelation… in emphatic terms: [Urdu] Not just now. …In accordance with this…the book did not draw much attention from people for some time. [Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah, part 3, p. 225 sub-footnote 1, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 1, pp. 249–250 sub-footnote 1] 1880 Once I fell seriously ill, so much so that on three separate occasions my relatives, perceiving that my last moment had arrived, recited s u rah Y a S i n to me as is customary among Muslims. On the third occasion, while the s u rah was being recited, I saw that some of my relatives—who have since passed away—were sobbing out of control behind the walls. I was suffering from a species of severe colic and was purging blood every few minutes. I continued in this condition for sixteen days. Another person who was suffering from a similar disorder died on the eighth day, though he had not suffered as severely as I was suffering. When the sixteenth day arrived everybody despaired of my life and s u rah Y a S i n was recited to me the third time. All my relatives believed that I would be in my grave before sunset. Then it so happened that as God had in the past taught His Prophets prayers for deliverance from misfortunes He also taught me through revelation a prayer as follows: 47 Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah [Publishers]