A nine month old boy left doctors baffled in Russia when verses from the Koran began appearing on his body, face, legs and skin. These writings from the Islamic holy book are believed to appear randomly before fading away and being replaced with new writings.

Ali's parents were left stunned after the word Allah appeared on Ali Yakubov's chin soon after his birth. After that scores of writings in the Arabic script have appeared almost all over his body.

Medics are denying that the letterings are from someone writing on the boy's skin.

The boy's mother, Madina Yakubov, said that she and her husband were not religious until the expressions started appearing on his skin.

Ever since this phenomenon started, the boy has turn into a focus of Muslim homage in his home province of Dagestan, close to war-ravaged Chechnya in southern Russia.

Local MP Akhmedpasha Amiralaev said: "This boy is a pure sign of God. Allah sent him to Dagestan in order to stop revolts and tension in our republic."

The baby boy's mother said: "Normally those signs appear twice a week - on Mondays and on the nights between Thursdays and Fridays.

"Ali always feels bad when it is happening. He cries and his temperature goes up.

"It's impossible to hold him when it's happening, his body is actively moving, so we put him into his cradle. It's so hard to watch him suffering."

"The inscriptions appear on Mondays and Fridays, the boy runs very high temperature and cries. The inscriptions gradually disappear after three days and then new ones appear," the mother said.

The parents said they did not tell anyone about this until they saw one phrase saying 'Show these signs to people.' The woman added that Ali was her second child, and this never happened to her first-born daughter.

A representative of Dagestan Spiritual Governance for Muslims did not provide any comments. He said he was surprised like everybody else.

The imam of the village musk believes that these signs are "God's signs."

The parents may not have used any substances or medications, if the child suffers from urticarial dermographism, also known as skin writing, - a skin disorder that occurs with five percent of the nation's population. It is one of the most common types of urticaria, in which the skin becomes raised and inflamed when stroked or rubbed with a dull object. Therefore, if the child has such a disorder, writing anything on his skin is a piece of cake.

"Some people suffering from gastric pathologies have extremely sensitive skin. If you draw something on their skin with a little stick, for example, the drawing will later appear," Ludmila Luss said.

In the meantime, the clergy of the Northern Caucasus do not doubt that the boy is a divine phenomenon.

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