Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 350
350 and addressing me thus spoke of my life : "Very few days are left;'' and We also said : "After all occurrences and wonders of nature have been shown, will come the occurrence of your death. " In this, there is an allusion that it is necessary that it is before my death some occurrences should take place and some wonders of nature should appear, so that the world might be prepared for a mighty revolution, and after that revolution would come my death. And a place was shown to me and it was said that would be the place of my sepulchre. I saw an angel measuring the earth, and coming to one place he told me that there was to be my tomb. A tomb was then shown to me which shone more brightly than silver, and the dust of it was all silver, and I was told that it was my tomb. And a place was shown to me which was called "the Bahishti Maqbara," and it was revealed to me that in it would be the tombs of such of the righteous from among my followers whose place is heaven. Since then I have always been anxious that some land should be bought for the object of making it a graveyard, but as land in the particular site intended for this object was priced very high, the proposal remained in pendency for a long time. Now after the death of our friend Maulvi Abdul Karim, may God have mercy on him when repeated revelations came also con- cerning my own death, I thought it advisable to arrange for the graveyard as soon as possible. For this purpose, I have given away a piece of land belonging to myself priced at nearly a thousand rupees, and I" pray that God may bless it and make it Bahishti Maqbard, I also pray that this graveyard may be the final resting-place of those of my followers who are pure in heart, who have in reality preferred their faith to this world, who have forsaken the world, devoted their lives to the cause of God and brought about a pure transformation within themselves, and who