My Mother — Page 79
Dreams and Portents 79 The Judge may think that I was pleading their cause in return for a fee. Also in order to help them I may have to criticise the state- ments of Asadullah Khan and my own servants. said, ‘I would not wish to place you in such a situ- ation. Think of something else. ’ I suggested that if their appeal was dismissed and the High Court rejected their petition for revision I could approach the Governor and request a reduction of their sentence. She did not consider that would be appropriate either. So she decided to pray for them and continued her supplications throughout the period during which their appeal was pending. The Sessions Judge reduced the sentence of the principal delinquent to four months’ imprisonment, and of his two companions to the period of imprisonment already undergone by them. Mother was pleased and rendered thanks for Divine mercy extended to the culprits. In the spring of 1934 she saw an extraordinary dream the ful- filment of which proved most instructive in several respects. She felt that she was in her own room and through the window of the room she observed a globe of light oscillating slowly across the window from right to left like the pendulum of a clock. When it arrived in the vertical position before the window a most majestic voice issued from it and she heard the words in Punjabi, ‘Shall be Chief Justice Zafrulla Khan son of Nasrullah Khan. ’ The globe oscillated on to the left and then returned to the right, and again when it arrived in the vertical position before the window, the same words were repeated very emphatically. The phenomenon was repeated a third time. Then she woke up. She related the dream to me. Whatever the interpretation, certain things were clear. The light, the majesty of the voice, the