96. The Sick Is Cured By Imam Husayn (‘A)
The Maulavi has also narrated that:
We have an ancestral Husayniyah in Khandahar for performing Azadari mourning. My mother's cousin sister, Alam Taab, who is the paternal aunt (father's sister) of late Shaykh Muhammad Tahir Khandahari, has never attended school. She cannot read or write. But such is the purity of her faith that she performs the ablution and recites Salawat, then placing her finger on the words of Qur’an, starts reading. Before reciting each line, she recites one Salawat. In this way she recites the whole Qur’an and this capacity of hers endures to the day.
That lady was having a son, named Abdur Rauf. During his childhood his chest and back developed a big hump, which I had also seen many times. On Ashura night, Alam Taab took that four-year-old boy to the ancestral Husayniyah to perform Azadari rituals. The parents of that boy wished for his death, as the boy was in severe pain. After the Majlis, Alam Taab tethered him to the pulpit and prayed to Imam Husayn ('a): O Husayn, please cure this boy by tomorrow or give him death.
Then everyone went to sleep. Suddenly they woke up by a noise. They saw that the boy was shivering. He jumped up and then fall back, and along with this he was screaming. We were perplexed. My mother told Alam Taab to take the boy home so that he may die over there and his father who is hot tempered may not object.
She took the boy in her arms and she was also trembling due to his shaking. I escorted her to the house. The boy continued to shiver for three or four days more. After that the extra outgrowth on his body melted away and disappeared completely and no sign of it remained.
Some days ago he had come for the Ziyarat of Iraq with his mother. I met him. He has grown up into a well behaved religious young man. He and his mother are still alive.