My Mother — Page 143
chapter thirteen Farewell O ver a span of years, Mother had been furnished indica- tions of the time of her departure. She was convinced that these indications proceeded from God, but she also realised that their true import was known only to Him. Long years before her death she was informed that she would die in the month of April. This was followed some years later by the intimation that the last Wednesday in April would be the day of her death. She had made a will that she should be buried in the Bahishti Maqbarah at Qadian. In view of this I had for some years arranged that we should spend the last half of April in Qadian. This was done in conformity with her wishes and was a source of comfort for her. Some time after the death of my father she saw him in a dream. He was accompanied by Chaudhri Sanaullah Khan, his first cousin by marriage. He expressed his concern over her melancholy looks, upon which his cousin said, ‘She is melancholy because of separa- tion from you. Why do you not take her with you?’