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Question:
I am a Christian woman from an educated, middle-class
family, working as a teacher in a private school. For the past five to six
years, I have languished beneath complex spiritual and psychosomatic
afflictions.
In 1980, upon completing my Matriculation
examinations, I was sitting reading a journal around 10:00 or 11:00 PM while
the household slept. Abruptly, a sensation struck me that a hound had crawled
beneath my bed, accompanied by violent full-body tremors; though I initially
dismissed the thought, a dog had in fact entered beneath the bed, and I drove
it outside.
Soon after, a recurring nocturnal terror began: an
unseen force dragged me out through the door while I screamed for my mother, my
voice choking silently in my throat; breaking free with desperate force, I
would collapse onto my mother's bed and recount the nightmare. Previously, my
mouth and hands had twisted into involuntary paralytic spasms; praying to God
in the name of Jesus Christ, my body gradually normalized. Yet ever since,
sickness and distress continually besiege me. Impart a holy Divine Name so that
through its grace, my afflictions may be dispelled.
Answer:
At night before sleep, ensure physical cleanliness,
recite three times:
Yā Īl, Yā Īlyā
یَا اِیْلُ، یَا اِیْلِیَا
close your eyes, and enter into contemplative
meditation (Murāqabah), focusing your inward visualization upon the
venerable form of Hadrat Isa (Jesus Christ, peace be upon him).
When this meditative contemplation stabilizes and the
sacred image rests vividly before your inner sight, visualize radiant beams of
celestial light emanating from his person and absorbing deeply into your
cerebral faculties.