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he required Hakeem Muhammad Hussain to purchase from the. British pharmacist in Lahore, including Tonic Wine which, according to medical listings, is a restorative tonic after childbirth 176 and which according to the circumstances surrounding Hadhrat Ahmad's as domestic life was required to assist his wife regain her strength after the birth of their son. . It is a recorded fact that Hadhrat Amajan™ª had suffered severe weakness during this pregnancy and Hadhrat Ahmadas had alluded to this in one of his letter addressed to Hadhrat Seth. Abdur Rahmana in which he informed him of the birth of. Hadhrat Mirza Mubarak Ahmadra and also stated: 'The time of delivery was very near and on June 14, with the first pains, my wife's condition became serious. Her whole body became cold and she suffered from extreme weakness. . It seemed as if she would faint, and I imagined that she was about to leave the world. The children were all deeply overcome and the women and her mother were almost out of their senses for the crisis had arisen suddenly. Believing that she was at her last breath and yet being certain of God's power to perform wonders, I supplicated for her health and her condition changed. '177. Where is the harm in a husband whose wife has recently given birth to a child purchasing a bottle of restorative tonic for her to aid her in her recovery particularly when she had suffered from severe weakness during pregnancy and in childbirth?. The author of Two in One may to his hearts wont accuse. Hadhrat Ahmadas of alcoholism but the fact remains that he considered any kind of intoxicant drink one of the greatest vices known to mankind. Hence he stated in relation to it: 'The two great vices in which grow passion are drinking and prostitution. '178 176. Materia Medica of Pharmaceutical Combinations and Specialities, p. 197 177. Ahmad, [Hadhrat] Mirza Ghulam. Maktoobat Ahmadiyya, vol. v, pt. 1, p. 26 178. Ibid. , How to get rid of the Bondage Sin, Review of Religions, January 1902 162