Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 530
530 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION Huḍūr is seated and the luminous person of His Holiness becomes visible, shining like the sun. And this humble one saw that his blessed face is so very beautiful and bright, as if radiating divine light. I also saw that from head to toe His Holiness is dressed in extremely white and bright clothes. Then, stepping forward, I offered my salām [greeting of peace] and he received me with such kindness and affec- tion as fully convinced me that I have been granted the favour and honour of being his servant, so much so that I find that my own dress has turned white and bright like his. Similarly, a saintly person, after focusing attention, had seen this dream about me that there is a pond, in the centre of which there is a brick building from within which there is emanating a flame of light. The holy person says that when he approached the gate of the building in order to determine the source of the light, he found that I was there inside it. The point of the discourse is that there are many other simi- lar dreams and visions which it will take long to describe. But it is well worth remembering that Allah the Exalted, has, through these dreams and visions, effectively established and proved to this hum- ble one that I am one of the spiritual helpers of His Holiness the Promised Messiah, peace be upon him. Just as he was shown two help- ers, in a true dream, in the early part of his claim to be the Messiah, the truth of which is testified to by a hadith of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, to the effect that the Promised Messiah will descend resting his hands on the shoulders of two angels or men, hence my dreams and visions, as briefly described above, amply prove that of the two helpers mentioned in the blessed visions seen by the Holy Prophets and by His Holiness, I happen to be one of them. It is so, firstly, because I have been shown written in a revealed book that the minaret at which the Messiah will descend shall be built by the hand of this humble one. Secondly, in a vision God appointed me to proclaim the majestic descent of the Messiah and to convey the glad tidings to the nations that they should enter his kingdom.