A Critical Review of the Pamphlet, 'Fateh-e-Qadian' — Page 63
Pious and pure are all the prophets 63 been dead for centuries — come and convey messages and revelations. Sometimes they also see children talking, who have not yet been born. Many times they see birds and beasts talking; often they have been known to have seen dreams in which buildings, trees and stones are also talking. Sometimes, [in dreams] even buildings move thousands of miles, as once the Ka‘bah came to meet Mujaddid Alif Th a n i ra 37. ’ (For details see the book Had i qah Ma h m u diyah translation by Hadrat Abul-Fai d Kam a lud-D i n Sarhind i, published by Ro d a Qayyum i p. 68, printed at Bal i d Press, Faridkoat, Punjab, India). If, in view of [Musht a q] Chisht i, these experiences are objectionable, then the same objections will apply to the vision that he has narrated in his booklet, F a te h -e-Qadian on page 7. Let us not get into whether the vision is authentic or not. But the vision talks about the appearance of Muh a jir Makk i to P i r Mehr ‘Al i. May we ask whether he appeard in his physical body, and if he spoke with his physical tongue? We can cite several examples to [Musht a q] Chisht i of his noble elders, but our aim is not to raise objections against anyone, but only to explain that one needs an eye for the inner sight and a thinking abounding in piety to understand the world of visions and revelation, for they relate to spiritual domain. 37 Literally, ‘Reformer of the second millennium’. Hadrat Ahmad Sirhind i – known as Mujaddid Alif Th a n i ra - was an Indian scholar from the Punjab, a H anaf i jurist and a prominent member of the Naqshband i sufi order. [Publishers]