Arba'in — Page 96
96 ARBAIN testimony even now that while interpreting a dream Maulawi 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 Hafız Şahib 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 Maulawi Abdullah as verbally recited by Hafız Şahib published in Izāla-e-Auhām. Can any sensible person accept that I published a concocted story, and Hafız Şahib remained silent even after reading the book? It is hard to understand what has happened to Hafiz Şahib! 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 Hāfiz Şahib that he believed in my truthfulness, and that he was ready to do mubāhalah [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 mubāhalah. 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 [Hafiz Şahib] is the specific reason for the publication of this announcement because during these days he was the very first to emphatically assert that this