Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 294
294 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION بَرَّقَ طِفْلِي بَشِيرٌ. Meaning that: 'My son, Bashir, began to see. ' Then, either the same day or the next he recovered. This incident, too, would be known to 100 persons or so. 78. SEVENTY-EIGHTH SIGN-When I built the smaller mosque that is attached to my residence and is built above an alley, I thought of finding a date in terms of numerical value'. At this, the following words were revealed from God Almighty: مُبَارِكٌ وَ مُبَارَكٌ وَكُلُّ أَمْرٍ مُّبَارَكِ يُجْعَلُ فِيْهِ. [This mosque is a source of blessings, and is blessed itself. In it will be performed every blessed deed]. This was a prophecy from which the date of the foundation of the mosque is also derived. 79. SEVENTY-NINTH SIGN―There is the following prophecy recorded in Barāhīn-e-Aḥmadiyya about the progress of this Jamā'at: كَزَرْعٍ أَخْرَجَ شَطْأَهُ فَأَزَرَهُ فَاسْتَغْلَظَ فَاسْتَوَى عَلَى سُوْقِهِ. Meaning that, initially it will be a seed which will send forth its sprout, which will then become stronger and then stand firm on its stems. It was a great prophecy which was made twenty-five years ago before the inception of the Jama'at, and was about its growth and pro- gress. It was made at a time when there was no Jama'at nor had anyone 1. In the Arabic abjad system each letter in the alphabet corresponds to a nu- merical value. Using this system, the date of the founding of the mosque, year 1300 of the Hijrah calendar, equals the sum of the numerical values of each Arabic letter used in the sentence. [Publisher]