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37 had so proudly and confidently boasted that it will not touch him, and Somraj, the Editor, was still lying ill, extremely full of apprehensions in view of the fatal severity of the epidemic all around. Then, in his anxiety, he sent word to a well known and able Ahmadi physician of Qadian,. Maulvee Obaidullah Bismil, requesting very humbly to be taken under his treatment. Maulvee Bismil wrote a note to the Promised Messiah, apprising him of the situation, and asking advice as to what he should do. To this note the Promised Messiah readily replied: "Certainly take him under your treatment, for this is what human sympathy and fellow feeling demands. But I may tell you plainly that this man will not survive. ". And thus it came to pass that in spite of the very sympathetic and able treatment of Maulana Bismil, Somraj died the same evening, or the very next day. (Alhakam, April 10, 1907). Now in this highly significant occurance there are two lessons for us all: (a) the extraordinary sympathy and, fellow feeling which characterised the Promised Messiah so much so that at a time when one of his most foulmouthed enemies was on his death bed he instructed one of his devoted disciples, who was a physician, to take the man under his treatment, as desired by the patient, and to do his best to save his life; and (b) the jealousy shown by. Allah for the fair name of His servant, and for the sanctity of the Prophecy His servant had made, which Somraj and his friends, in their own foolish way, were doing their best to bring under a cloud of doubt. The men had not yet finished laughing to scorn the grandeur of this prophecy, when they were struck down by the disease, which, in a few days, eliminated them all; and the Divine Promise was fulfilled in a grand manner : "Verily, Allah has so written and ordained that He and His Apostles shall triumph. (The Holy Quran, Surah Mojaadilah, Page 22)