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60 in al-Fazl , al- H akm and N u r , it was not published in Badr , which was not being published at that time. Hence, what shall we understand from ‘Look it up in Badr’ ? One must remember that at times the dreams and visions are fulfilled literally and at times they have to be interpreted. This vision also is such that it has to be interpreted. Four of the distinctive signs mentioned in the vision had really come true, but there remains one sign that was yet to be interpreted. But the fulfilment of other four signs had already sealed the truth of the vision. As for the interpretation of the remaining one sign, let me explain that the moon on the fifteenth night of its cycle is called Badr. But in order to partly conceal the message in the vision, God named the fourteenth night of March as Badr according to the fourteenth night of the lunar circle. This told us that the incident would take place on the fourteenth. The date the will was formally announced was the 14 th —it was on that day that the trustee of the will, Naww a b Muhammad Ali Khan, read out the will to the public. The decision regarding the continuation of the institution of Khilafat was also made on this same day. Seventh Heavenly Testimony About three or four years ago I had another vision wherein I saw myself aboard a car. The car was moving towards our house. Meanwhile, somebody told me of the demise of Hadrat Khal i fatul- Mas ih I ra. I told the driver of the car to go faster so that I could reach home at the earliest. I had also narrated this vision to many of my friends before the demise of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra. I can still recall the names of some of those people. They were Naww a b Muhammad Ali Khan, Maulav i Sayyed Sarwar Shah, Sheikh