The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 69
Revelation, Inspiration, Vision and Dream 69 of this revelation also and I also informed Hafiz Hidayat 'Ali Khān, Extra Assistant Commissioner, who had arrived in Qādiān the same day or the following day. I also informed Maulavi Muḥammad Husain of Batāla. In short, after the receipt of this revelation, according to the. Divine command, I made some effort towards inviting assistance and thereafter I received from Lahore, Peshāwar, Rawalpindi, Malīrkotla and a few other places enough assistance to meet the expenses of the publication of that part. All praise is due to Allāh for this. [Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 1, pp. 248-251 sub-footnote 1]. The second form of revelation, which on account of its many wonders I call perfect revelation, is that when God. Almighty desires to inform a servant of a hidden matter after his supplication or on His own, He imposes a faintness upon him, whereby he becomes completely free from his self and sinks in that faintness like a person who dives in deep water and disappears in it; then when he emerges from this diving he feels a sort of echo inside himself, and when that echo ceases he feels from inside himself words that are appropriate and fine and delicious. . This diving in the faintness is a wonderful experience, which cannot be adequately described in words. In this condition, a whole ocean of understanding is opened for a person. When repeatedly he has this experience of diving that is imposed upon him by God Almighty and he receives a response to every supplication in fine and delicious words, and in each instance God discloses to him verities which it is beyond human power to disclose, he thereby achieves the fullness of understanding and cognition. Man's supplication and God's response to it through the manifestation of His Godhead is an experience as if the supplicant beholds God in this very world