Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 429
Sub-Footnote Number Four 429 It also goes without saying that if the revelations of Khi d r and the mother of M u s a were only a bundle of doubts and delusions, and were not certain and unequivocal, what right did they have to endanger the life of any innocent person or to push them to death, or do any- thing else that was both unlawful and unreasonable? After all, it had to be unequivocal knowledge that made those actions obligatory upon them, and made permissible for them matters that were by no means permissible for others. Apart from this, one should reflect impartially that an observable and existing phenomenon which has been proven true and has been established as fact through verifiable experiences cannot be shaken by mere conjectures and suspicions: ْئًا ي شَ ِّ َ یُغْنِی ْ عَن ِ الْحَق ال ُّ وَالظَّن [And conjecture avails nothing against truth]. In the revelations received by my hum- ble self, there is nothing concealed or hidden. Rather, it is a phenome- non that has withstood the crucible of hundreds of trials, yet emerged securely intact, and the Benevolent God has granted me manifest vic- tory in great contests. Here I recall that the true dream, which I have recorded in Part III regarding a court case of a Hindu, was also accompanied by a revelation that came at a time of a strange dispute and denial and relieved me of a great anxiety and distress. The following is a detailed account. In this true dream of mine, which was like a clear vision, it was con- veyed to me that one Bishambar D a s, a Khatr i 1 Hindu, who is alive and present in Qadian, would not be acquitted in a criminal case, but that his sentence would be reduced by one-half, and that his fellow prisoner named Khush Ha l, who is also alive and present in Qadian, would serve out the whole of his sentence. A trial was encountered about this aspect of the vision. It so happened that when the Chief Court remitted the case to the lower court, in accordance with the prophecy of my hum- ble self, the relatives of the two accused persons considered this remit- tal as an acquittal and announced the news in the town that both of 1. Belonging to the military caste [Publisher]