Spiritual Healing

A Distressed Life

 Question:

For the past thirty years, my sister has been suffering from an illness similar to epilepsy. When she has a seizure, the suffering is so painful that I cannot describe it. I do not understand why Allah has afflicted my sister with such a hardship. We have sought spiritual treatments, amulets, and other remedies, and have visited physicians, spiritual guides, and pious people in distant places, but even after such a long period, there has been no improvement. Some ordinary doctors have even declared her condition incurable.

When the time of the seizure begins, she starts experiencing shortness of breath, speaks meaningless words, falls to the ground, her entire body becomes stiff, her eyes turn upward, and her condition becomes abnormal, as if someone has tightly gripped her. This state continues for a few minutes. We lift her and place her on a bed; then gradually she returns to normal. These seizures occur several times in a month.

My sister developed this illness when she was seven or eight years old. During her youth, she remained free from seizures for almost four years. We thought that she had finally been relieved of this condition, and she was married.

One year after her marriage, the seizures started again. These episodes have made her life extremely difficult. Whether she is travelling or anywhere else, there is no fixed time for the seizure to occur. Sometimes we have even had to bring her home after finding her in fields or other places. Once, while cooking food, she fell onto the stove during a seizure, and her hand was burnt and became paralysed. She continues to suffer some injury or another.

By the grace of Allah, my sister has seven children. Two of her children have also been married. Today, gathering courage, I present myself before you through this letter. Kindly guide me and tell me a practice that I can perform for her, because she is uneducated. Now even her mental faculties do not function as well as before.

Considering your spirit of serving humanity, I present this humble request before you. I hope that you will not disappoint me.

Answer:
At night, before sleeping, take one spoonful of pure honey, recite (
اَلرَّضَاعَتْ عَمَا نَوِیْلُ) once over it, blow upon it, and give it to your sister. Continue this practice for ninety days.

Reduce the use of salt to the minimum. Take a glass measuring twelve by nine inches, have it painted grey, and get it framed and hung at a place where it remains within her sight.

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