Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 436
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 436 21 September 1907 (At the time of Z uhr) The Practice of Allah with Respect to True Dreams The Promised Messiah as said: The practice of Allah is established so, and it is also my belief, that some people who neither possess any connection with God nor are their morals and habits good; but when one of their dear ones is to die, or a similar incident is to occur, then sometimes they are foretold something or another through dreams, so much so that I have even seen that most of a cleaning lady’s dreams would come true. Rather, even the most egregious adulteress and an immoral woman can see some [true] dreams. Even prostitutes, dancers, and the like, many a times say that a dream of theirs came true. However, if a question is raised as to why God did so, then the response is that by sampling such [true dreams], these people can understand the working of prophethood, and if such a parallel had not existed then there would be difficulty in understanding the [Divine] relationship of the Prophets. It is true that the disbelievers, immoral, and impious people all sometimes see true dreams, and it means that if even they can see such dreams despite being immersed in all kinds of flaws, immorality, impiety, and the filth of the world; then those ones who are always connected with God and are continuously upon His threshold, why should they not be considered truthful? Once a few A rya Hindus came to me and said that they also see true dreams. I told them the same that I do believe that even those from the lowest castes can also see true dreams. This does not prove that the practical condition of the one who sees a true dream