Tadhkirah — Page 441
1899 441 1899 (A) On one occasion I suffered from severe toothache which would not let me have a moment’s rest. I enquired from someone whether there was a remedy for it. He said: The only remedy for toothache is to have the tooth taken out; and this I shrank from. I was sitting on the ground in my state of restlessness and there was a ch a r-pa’ i [cot] nearby. In my restlessness, I put my head on the foot of the cot and was overtaken by a light slumber. When I reverted to wakefulness, the pain had disappeared altogether and the revelation flowed from my lips: That is [Arabic] When you fall ill, He bestows healing on you. 488 [Allah be praised for this]. [ H aq iq atu l -Wa hi, p. 235, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 22, pp. 246–247] (B) More than a month ago Maulav i N u r-ud-D i n ra began to suffer from a severe toothache which continued for a number of days and yielded only to the tooth being taken out. The Promised Messiah as said: I too once suffered from a severe toothache which made me unconscious and in this condition I received the revelation: 489 [Letter by Maulav i ‘Abdul-Kar i m ra , al- H akam, vol. 3, no. 24, July 10, 1899, p. 3] 488 This Revelation is given here because it was determined from the statement of Maulav i ‘Abdul-Kar i m ra , given in section (B), that this revelation occurred prior to July 10, 1899. [Jalal-ud-Din Shams] 489 [Arabic] When you fall ill, He bestows healing on you. [Publishers]