Arba'in — Page 96
96 testimony even now that while interpreting a dream Maulaw i Abdullah Ghaznavi had said that the light that will illumine the world is Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian. It seems like it was just yesterday that Ha fi z Sahib would also repeatedly narrate both these stories. He is still not quite that elderly that it could be assumed that his faculty of memory is weakened owing to old age. It has been a period of over eight years since I had the aforementioned vision of Maulaw i Abdullah as verbally recited by Ha fi z Sahib published in Iz a la-e-Auh a m. Can any sensible person accept that I published a concocted story, and Ha fi z Sahib remained silent even after reading the book? It is hard to understand what has happened to Ha fi z Sahib! It seems that he is deliberately withholding the testimony due to some expe- diency, and has the noble intention to disclose the testimony on some other occasion. But life is short. There is still time to speak the truth. What is the advantage in man forfeiting his spiritual life for the benefit of his physical life! I had heard many times from Ha fi z Sahib that he believed in my truthfulness, and that he was ready to do mub a halah [prayer duel] with those who considered me to be false. And a large part of his life passed in this state as he continued to speak of his dreams in support of this view, and he even engaged some opponents in a mub a halah. Why then did he incline towards the world? Nonetheless, even now we are not in despair that Allah might open his eyes, and this hope shall remain so long as he does not die in this very state. It should be remembered that he [ Ha fi z Sahib] is the specific reason for the publication of this announcement because during these days he was the very first to emphatically assert that this