The Revealed Sermon — Page xvii
Foreword xvii The Promised Messiah as made mention of two dreams concerning this Khu t bah Ilh a miyyah. Giving the date of 19 April 1900, the Promised Messiah as narrates the dream of Miy an Abdullah Sannauri in which he saw the late Munshi Ghulam Q a dir arriving here and he questioned him about the impression of this gathering. In reply, the late Q a dir said that there is much tumult here in the heavens. This dream is similar to the dream of Syed Ameer Ali Shah who had seen that at the time that the Arabic sermon was read out before the audience, the Messenger s as of Allah, Jesus as , Moses as , and Khi d r as were present in the gathering and were listening to the sermon. This was expe- rienced as a vision at the very moment the Sermon was being recited. We are herewith publishing only the revealed portion of the book (i. e. ), along with three footnotes by the Promised Messiah as. The book includes the Persian and Urdu translations as orig- inally published, along with an English translation. A subsequent edi- tion will additionally include the supplemental portion written by the Promised Messiah as , thus presenting a comprehensive publication. Earlier versions of the English translation of were performed by Hadrat Miyan Raheem Baksh and Maulana Sufi Mutiur Rahman Bengalee, and were published in the Review of Religions. The present English translation has been finalized by Munawar Ahmad Saeed. Reviews were carried out by Usman Nasir Choudhary, Waseem Ahmad Sayed, and Naser-ud-Din Shams. Arabic proofreading was performed by the Arabic Desk (UK) and Na za rat Ish a ‘at. Valuable assistance was provided by Sheikh Naseer Ahmad, Fouzan Pal, and Mirza Abdul-Wahab. May Allah bless them all. al- Ha j Munir-ud-Din Shams Additional Wak i lut-Ta s n i f, UK May 2023