Haji Ali Akbar Sarwari Tehrani said: I have an Alawite aunt (mother's sister), who is extremely pious and she is a blessing for our family. In calamities and tragedies, all of us take her refuge and all our problems are solved through her supplications.

Once that lady had chest pain and although she consulted some doctors, it did not make any difference. At last she arranged a ladies gathering of mourning (Majlis) to seek the mediation of Lady Fatima Zahra (‘a) and also served food as benediction.

I saw in dream the same night that the Infallible Lady has come to her house. Aunt said: My hut is very small; and since I was not deserving of it, I could not invite you the other day. Lady Fat i ma ('a) said: I came on my own and I was present here. Now, I would like to indicate your illness and its cure. She held the palm of her hand before her face and said: Look at my palm, when she looked at it, she saw in it all the inner conditions of her body. She also saw that there was a lot of dirt in her womb. She said: Your pain is related to the womb. Consult such and such doctor and you would be cured.

Thus, in the morning, she visited that doctor and explained her malady. She was very soon cured by his treatment.

We must also understand that it was possible that she could have cured her only through her Du’a, but the fact is that the Almighty Allah has created a medicine for every malady, so that the quality, which Allah has placed in it should be revealed, therefore it is necessary to refer to a doctor when one is ill, and one must not abandon the use of medicine and should know that cure is from the Almighty Allah, but through the mediation of doctor and medicine, except in instances, in which divine exigency demands direct cure.

Since there was no such exigency in the case of this lady, she was directed to refer to a doctor.

Imam Ja' far as-Sadiq ('a) said: When one of the past prophets became ill, he said: I will not use medicine, because the God who has made me sick should cure me also. The Almighty Allah revealed to him: I will not cure you till you don't take recourse to medicine. It is so, because cure is from Me, even though it might be the medicine.