Hazrat Mir Muhammad Ismail (ra) — Page 40
40 You are my fragrance, my song , and the sustenance of my heart. My King! You are my rapture, my joy and my paradise. You are the C ure for my malady, my sorrow, and my plight. You are the Hope. You are the T reasure. You are the C ure. You are Bliss. Beholding You in every single particle, my eyes so pro fess: You alone exist. You alone exist. And who knows what You are? - [ Bukhār - e - Dil ] In an article titled "A night in the Tavern of Adoration" 26 , Ḥaḍrat Mir Sahib ra has narrated an extremely inspiring and amazing spiritual experience of his. This article was published in the Daily Al - Fazl Qadian, on 3 November 1936. This sp iritual experience of his , entails a series of intermittent episodes of visions and Divine communion. The following details have been derived from this article. It was December 1920. Ḥaḍrat Mir Sahib was thirty - nine years old. One night, he was returning f rom the Masjid Mubarak in Qadian, after having offered his ‘ Ish ā prayers. All other worshipers had left before him and he was the last one to leave the mosque. As he began to descend the stairs, he felt an indescribable surge of God's love in his heart, as if this feeling had been inspired into his heart. Then it seemed as though someone called out to him from inside the vacant mosque: "So, you leave My house, and head to wards your own? And that too, during this rare