Tadhkirah — Page 219
1889 219 came to see me and humbly requested me to deliver a sermon…. I accepted his request with pleasure and had in mind to speak in regular public about the essence of Islam… But thereafter God the Almighty dissuaded me from this effort. I am sure that as I was not in good health, God the Almighty did not desire that I should suffer some ill consequence from making an intellectual effort and that is why He stopped me from delivering the sermon. On a previous occasion, I had a similar experience. While I was physically in a weak condition, I saw one of the past Prophets in a vision and he said to me with sympathy and goodwill, ‘Why do you do such hard mental work; if you continue, you will fall ill. ’ [Fat h- e-Isl a m, pp. 27–28 footnote, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 3, pp. 17–18]