Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 136
136 Divine attribute of healing clearly prove that God exists and that He possesses the power to heal. The following incident may be related as an instance. When the Movement began to spread, the Prom- ised Messiah as founded a high school at Qadian, his object being to provide a proper place of instruction for future generations of Ahmadis, where they could imbibe the traditions of the Movement and be imbued with the spirit of its doctrines and teachings. Ahmadi young men belonging to distant places joined the school for secular and spiritual instruction. One of these named Abdul Kar i m who belonged to a village in the Nizam’s Domin- ions in the Deccan, nearly sixteen hundred miles distant from Qadian. While at Qadian he was bitten by a mad dog and was sent for treatment to the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli. After he had had his treatment it was supposed that he was out of danger. On returning to Qadian, however, he had an attack of hydrophobia and devel- oped the symptoms and suffered the tortures by which this terrible disease is always attended. He developed contraction of the throat muscles, convulsive dread of water, excess of fear, sleeplessness, fits of mania during which he felt a strong desire to attack and injure those who attended upon him—acts of which he felt ashamed during intervals of relief when he begged his attendants to leave him lest he should do them harm. He grew rapidly worse, and a telegram was despatched by the headmaster of the school to the director of the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli enquiring whether anything could be done for the boy. His reply arrived to the effect, 'Sorry, nothing can be done for Abdul Kar i m. ' As the boy