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41 moment of solitude , which will never com e again?" He heard this and hurriedly turned around to go back into the mosque. "You have forgotten the way to the Inner Sanctum. These stairs do not lead to the Tavern of Adoration, nor is this the course of the adorers", said the voice to him. Then again , God spoke to him: "If you wish to come this way, take the old stairway. Submit yourself , as a delirious lover would. ” Submitting to this instruction from The Divine, Ḥaḍrat Mir Sahib ra took to the old narrow stairway which the Promised Messiah as used d uring his lifetime. The extreme love which the Promised Messiah as had for God, rightfully qualified this particular route as the "course of the adorers". Overwhelmed by this heavenly encounter, Ḥaḍrat Mir Sahib ra tore open his shirt, and as he stood at the base of the old stairway, h e was again commanded: "O wayward and lost one, rise and ascend". Ḥaḍrat Mir Sahib ra climbed the stairway step by step, prostrating on each step and wiping each step with his beard, as he climbed. He managed this distance in one hour, which ordinarily would take less than a minute. After entering the mosque, he indulged himself in prayer and supplication. In his intense moments of prayer, he sought the forgiveness of God, in the following words of his master and mentor, the Promi sed Messiah as : O my Lord, forgive me my sin Grant me the path to Y our abode - [ Durr - e - Thamīn Farsi ]