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E ARLY Y EARS – 1881 21 Nanak [District Gurdaspur] in the custody of his descendants. [Nuz u lul-Mas ih , pp. 203–204, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 18, pp. 581–582] (B) It should be remembered that I have seen B ava N a nak in my visions twice and that he confessed that he had obtained illumination from the same light [of Islam]. I consider uttering of nonsense and falsehood like devouring carrion; I affirm only that which I have seen. That is why I hold B a v a N a nak in honour for I know that he drank from the same fountain from which we drink; and God knows that I talk out of the knowledge that He has bestowed upon me. [Announcement of April 18, 1897, Majm u ‘a Ishtih ara t, vol. 2, pp. 396–397] About 1872 About twenty-five years before the case brought against me by Martyn Clark I had seen in a dream that I was present in a court before a magistrate and the time of the prayers had approached. I requested permission from the magistrate to go and join the prayers and he cheerfully gave me permission. Accordingly, in the middle of the hearing of that case, when I requested Captain Douglas to permit me to join the prayers, he gladly gave me permission. [Nuz u lul-Mas ih, p. 210, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 18, p. 588] About 1872 Once I saw in a dream that I was sitting on a black rug in a house in Batala and that my dress was also similar to the rug as if I had withdrawn from the world. Then a tall man came in and asked me: ‘Where is Mirza Ghulam Ahmad son of Mirza Ghulam M u r ta da ?’ I answered: ‘I am the one. ’ He said to me: ‘I have heard great praise of you that