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Post-Typhoid Sensorineural Deaf-Mutism-The Deaf and Mute Girl

 Question:

My eleven-year-old niece is deaf and mute. At the age of four, following a devastating bout of typhoid fever, her auditory and vocal faculties were destroyed; prior to that illness, she heard and spoke normally. She is the sole child of her parents. Consultations with eminent physicians proved futile, specialists explaining that the cranial nerve pathways governing audition and speech had withered. Her father took her to Dubai to consult a visiting specialist from London, who fitted an auditory prosthesis into her ear; nevertheless, she cannot discern sound unless one shouts forcefully. We hope you will provide an effective remedy. Inform me what fee I should remit via postal money order.

Answer:

Take sweet almond kernels, sweet fennel seeds (saunf), and crystallized rock sugar (kūzah miṣrī) in equal proportions by weight. Grind them into a fine compound powder using a brass mortar and pestle. Administer one teaspoon of this powder three times daily—morning, evening, and night. Furthermore, formulate a medicinal collyrium (kajal) utilizing yellow mustard oil, and apply a single application to both eyes nightly at bedtime.

Using pure saffron and rose water, inscribe the following upon three unblemished white porcelain plates:

بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْمِ

الر ۚ تِلْكَ آيَاتُ الْكِتَابِ الْمُبِينِ

الرَّحْمٰنُ الرَّحِیْمُ

Wash one plate with clean water each morning, evening, and night, and administer the water to the girl to drink. Maintain this entire medical and spiritual regimen for six consecutive months.

My fee is simply that you pray on my behalf, asking that Allah Almighty accepts my humble endeavors in service to His creation. Amen.

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