The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 68
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. ACCEPTANCE OF HIS PRAYERS. God accepts the prayers of all sincere supplicants. To hist prophets and messengers He gives a spiritual sign of acceptance of their prayers as they have a close relationship with Him. God is the ultimate Healer and He demonstrates this power at the hands of His chosen ones. For the Promised Messiah his prayers were his main strength and his chief weapon. He declared that God accepted his prayers more than anyone in the world and had given him a special sign of acceptance of prayers. All and sundry turned to him in their difficulties and sicknesses with requests for prayers and all benefited. . His beneficence was open to all irrespective of their creed or station in life. He showed thousands of signs of acceptance of his prayers. . Numerous such instances are mentioned in his books. People of all creeds bore witness to it. He was not like fake-healers who go around showing healing of some neurotics and people with psychosomatic symptoms by means of concentration and influence of various psychological factors. Such healings do not depend on the spiritual life of the claimants. People in impossible situations and severe and fatal diseases were benefited and cured by him. . One such instance is the story of Abdul Karim who was stricken with rabies. The Promised Messiah had established a high school at Qadian for secular and religious education for young men of his Movement. Abdul Karim was a young boy from distant, Deccan in South India and was a student at the school. He was bitten by a rabid dog. He was sent to Pasteur Institute at Kasauli where he received rabies vaccination. However, on his return to Qadian he became sick and developed the characteristic clinical symptoms of rabies including periods of hyperactivity and bizarre behavior and hydrophobia. He grew rapidly worse. The headmaster of the school sent a telegram to the Director of Pasteur Institute at Kasauli, inquiring whether anything could be done for the sick boy. His reply came, "Sorry, nothing can be done for Abdul-Karim". The Promised 68