Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 76
76 KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH happen after his demise. I, at that time, was not a child. I was a young man, I used to write articles, and was editor of a magazine. I say on oath that I never thought, for a minute, or even for a second, that the Promised Messiah as would die, even though, in the last years of his life, there were a series of revelations about his demise. In his last days, such revelations increased manifold. Despite the fact that there were revelations and visions specifying the date etc. of the demise of the Promised Messiah as , and we used to read Al-Wa s iyyat (The Will), we still presumed that these things would probably happen after two centuries. Thus, the thought of what would happen after the demise of the Promised Messiah as never crossed our minds. Since we had assumed that he would not die in our lifetime, it was difficult for us to accept the reality of his demise when it happened. I clearly remember that after his demise, he was given a bath and was wrapped in the shroud. As is common, that one’s clothes and moustache etc. move with the blowing of the wind, some of the companions would come running, saying that the Promised Messiah as was alive, and his clothes or moustache was moving. Some said that they saw his shroud moving. Anyhow, the body of the Promised Messiah as was brought to Qadian and was placed inside a house in a garden. Around eight or nine o’clock, Khawaja Kamaluddin arrived in the garden, took me aside, and asked me, “Miy a ń ! Have you thought of what would happen