Once I fell seriously ill with dysenteric colic. For as many as sixteen days I passed blood in stools. The pain was too severe to describe. During those days the late Sheikh Rahim Bakhsh, the revered father of Maulawi Abu Sa‘id Muhammad Husain of Batala, visited me to inquire about my health and he saw my critical condition. And I heard him tell some people that this disease was spreading like an epidemic in those days and that he had just come after offering funeral prayers for someone who had died of the same disease in Batala. And it so happened that a person named Muhammad Bakhsh, a barber and a resident of Qadian, fell ill the same day with the same disease and died on the eighth day.
After the sixteenth day of my sickness, signs of hopelessness became evident and I noted that some of my relatives were crying behind the wall, and, in accordance with the tradition [linked to the Holy Prophet(sa)], Surah Ya Sin was recited to me thrice. When my condition deteriorated to this stage, God Almighty put in my heart: ‘Stop every other treatment and rub river sand having water with it on your body, while glorifying God and invoking blessings on the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.’ Promptly such sand was procured from the river and I began to rub that sand over my body, simultaneously reciting the prayer 
[‘Holy is Allah and worthy of all Praise; Holy is Allah, the Great’] and Durud Sharif [invocation of blessings upon the Holy Prophet(sa)]. Each time the sand touched my body, it was as if my body was delivered from fire. In the morning, the illness had totally disappeared. By the morning I received the following revelation:
[If you are in doubt concerning what we have sent down to Our servant, then cite a cure like it.]