I knew a person [said Hazrat Inayat Khan] whom a physician had examined, and had told that he would die in three months. No doubt if that person had been imaginative he would have taken that impression. But he came to me and he said, “What nonsense! Die in three months! I am not going to die even in three hundred years.”

And, to our great surprise, within three months the doctor died, and this man brought me the news!

We must learn to respect the human being, and realise that a human soul is beyond birth and death, that a human soul has a divine spirit in it, and that all illnesses and pains and sufferings are only his tests and trials. He is above them, and we must try to raise him above illness.