Mirror of Charm and Beauty — Page 54
his blessed spouse, our mother. But curiously enough, before going there, he saw in a dream that he had gone to Delhi, but had found all the doors of the town closed on him. (Tazkira, page 568); and this was exactly how it came to transpire. When he reached. Delhi, all kinds and classes of the people of that town rose in severe opposition, showing, in fact, that all the doors were closed on him. It is true many people came to see him; but the greater part of them came with opposition in their mind, and they went back in the same condition. Some of them did not indulge in open opposition, but they remained silent, from lack of moral courage; and the few who had a spark of Iman in their hearts tried to smother it with their own hands, like. Heraclius of Rome; and when they went back to their homes after paying a visit to the. Promised Messiah, they went empty handed. . Not only had Delhi been the seat of. Muslim rulers of great power and grandeur, but also in this town lay buried a large number of the righteous servants of God, whose shrines have a powerful appeal for the people even at this time. In accordance with the sunnat of the righteous people, and in the humility of mind characteristic of the Promised Messiah a desire arose in his heart that he should visit the graves of those holy people, and 54