The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 189
Miscellaneous Signs بَرَّقَ طِفْلِى بَشِيرٌ 189. That is, 'My son Bashir has opened his eyes. ' By the grace of God, his eyes were cured the same day. . Once I myself fell so seriously ill that people thought I. I was about to die, and Surah Ya-Sin was recited to me three times. But God Almighty accepted my prayer and healed me without the agency of any medicine. I had fully recovered when I woke up the next morning. . Immediately, I received the revelation: وَإِنْ كُنتُمْ فِي رَيْبٍ مِّمَّا نَزَّلْنَا عَلَى عَبْدِنَا فَأْتُوا بِشِفَاءٍ مِّنْ مِّثْلِهِ. This is, 'If you are in doubt as to the mercy which We have poured upon Our servant, then do bring any precedent of such recovery. ' I have had numerous similar experiences in which, only through prayer and earnest concern on my part, God Almighty healed the sick, and their number defies counting. Recently, on the night preceding 8th July, 1906, my son Mubarak. Aḥmad was down with measles and feeling very restless. He spent the whole night tossing and turning with pain, with hardly a moment's sleep. The following night he was much worse and in a state of delirium. His whole body itched terribly. I was greatly overcome and received the revelation: 61 ادْعُونِي أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْ". Then I prayed and immediately afterwards I saw in a vision that there were numerous mice-like creatures on his bed that were biting him. Someone then got up, 61 Pray unto Me; I will answer your prayer. [Publisher]