Life of Ahmad — Page 66
EARLY LIFE as 66 'When I was informed that my father was to die after sunset, the news caused me the pang of grief instinctive to humanity, and since some of the important sources of our family incomes were bound up with his life, e. g. , the pension and the good service annuity he received from the British Government, the thought passed through my mind as to what was to happen after his death, and there came a flutter in my heart that perhaps there would now come days of poverty and pain. All these thoughts passed through my mind in a moment, like a flash of lightning. Immediately there came over me a trance and the second revelation came "Is not God all-sufficient for His servant?" The Divine revelation was immediately followed by a feeling of mental relief, as though some painful wound had been suddenly healed by a potent ointment—When the revelation came, I understood that God would not allow me to perish. I then wrote down the revelation and made it over to a certain Hindu Khatri, Mal a wa Mal by name, who is a resident of Qadian and is still living. I also told him the whole story and sent him to Amritsar so that with the help of Hakim Maulaw i Muhammad Sharif of Kalanaur he might get the revelation inscribed on a stone and have a seal made of it. I selected the Hindu for the work simply to make him as well as