Stories from Early Ahmadiyyat — Page 67
67 the ashes thrown into water. It would happen on a day close to Eid festival, just before or just after. Again in April, 1893, he declared that he had seen in a vision a fearful-looking person who was searching for Lekh Ram as if he had been appointed to carry out the punishment. He also announced that ‘if this person is not over- taken within the period of six years by a torment that should be distinguishable from ordinary sufferings and should bear an extraordinary character and should be in the nature of Divine punishment, then it might be con- cluded that I have not been sent by God Almighty, nor do I speak under the urge of His spirit. If I am proved false in any aspect of this prophecy, I will be ready to undergo any punishment and would be willing that a rope might be drawn around my neck and I might be hanged. ’ On 2nd April, 1893, he wrote, ‘This morning in the course of a light slumber I saw that I was sitting in a large room where some of my friends were present when a well-built man of terrible appearance came and stood before me. As I looked at him, he asked me: Where is Lekh Ram? He also named another person and inquired where he was. Then I understood that this person stand- ing in front of me had been appointed for the chastise- ment of Lekh Ram and the other person, whose name I