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28 who dwell in this house. This caused me indescribable distress. About midnight his condition deteriorated and I feared that this was not an ordinary fever rather some other affliction. I cannot describe the pain that I experienced from the thought that if, God forbid, the boy dies, the hard-hearted enemies would have much material to cover up the truth. In this condition I performed my ablution and stood up in Prayer and immediately I perceived that I had been put in a state of mind which was a manifest sign for the acceptance of prayer. I call God to witness, in whose hand is my life, that I had just completed about three rak‘ats 1 when a state of vision overtook me and I saw that the boy had recovered completely. Then, as this state left me I saw the boy sitting in full consciousness upon the char- pa’i [bed] and he was asking for water. I had completed the four rak‘at. I gave him water immediately and I put my hand on his body and found that there was no sign of temperature. (Haqiqatul-Wahi, Ruhani Khaza’in, Volume 22, pp. 87-88) “21. The twenty first sign: Some thirty years ago, my respected father—God bless him—fell ill near the end of his life. On the day he was destined to breathe his last, I 1 One round in a Prayer - standing, bowing & prostration