Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 224
BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part three 224 For instance, on the first or second of Mu h arram , 1299 ah, 1 I saw in a dream that someone had sent me fifty rupees towards the cost of my book. An A ryah 2 also saw a dream that someone had sent me a thousand rupees for the same purpose. He related his dream to me and I immediately told him of my dream and said to him: ‘Nineteen- twentieths of your dream is false; this is a consequence of your being a Hindu and outside the pale of Islam. ’ He might have taken it ill, but it was the truth and this was confirmed on the fifth or sixth of Mu h arram, when the sum of fifty rupees, which had been remitted by Sheikh Muhammad B a ha’-ud-D i n, Chief Minister of Junagadh State, was received as assistance towards the cost of the book, in the presence of several people, one of whom was an A ryah. ذٰلِك ى ہلِلِ عَلٰ ُ ْد وَالْحَم [And all praise belongs to Allah for this]. At another time, God informed me about the death of a raja, which I communicated to a Hindu who is now a pleader by profession. When the prophecy was fulfilled later the same day, the Hindu was greatly astonished as to how I could have acquired such clear and manifest knowledge of an unseen event. On another occasion, the same lawyer appeared for his law exam- inations, and several other candidates from that district [Sialkot] appeared with him in the same year. At that time also, I saw a dream on the basis of which I informed around thirty or forty Hindus, including revenue collectors, record keepers, and clerks, not to mention the law- yer himself, that only he would pass the examination and all the other candidates would fail. This is exactly what happened, and I received this news in 1868, in Qadian, through the letter of the lawyer. ہلِلِ ُ ْد وَالْحَم ذٰلِك ى ٰ عَل [And all praise belongs to Allah for this]. Here it should also be borne in mind that just as the dreams of our opponents regarding worldly matters turn out to be predomi- nantly worthless and baseless lies, so is the case with their dreams that 1. Corresponds to November 23 or 24, 1881 ce [Publisher] 2. L a lah Sharampat [Publisher]