Tadhkirah — Page 39
E ARLY Y EARS – 1881 39 saw. [Do You O Lord curse him who lies and do You succour him who tells the truth. ] [Nuz u lul-Mas ih, pp. 236–238, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 18, pp. 614–616] About 1878 In those very days, 46 the night before or the night after, I saw in a vision a person who appeared to me to be an angel, but I felt in my dream that his name was Sher ‘Al i. He made me lie down and took out my eyeballs and cleaned them and removed every smear and speck from them and wiped away all matter that might be the cause of a disorder or of short-sightedness. He converted a clear light, which was already there but had been covered up by some opaque matter, into the likeness of a bright star. Having done this, that person disappeared and I reverted from that state of vision to complete wakefulness. [Tiry a qul-Qul u b, p. 95, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 15, p. 352] 1878 On one occasion a student who knew English came to see me and in his presence was vouchsafed to me the revelation: [English] This is My enemy. I had perceived that this revelation related to him, but I asked him its meaning. He turned out to be of the same ilk and his mind was found to be a prey to many kinds of ills. [Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah, part 4, p. 481 sub-footnote 3, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 1, pp. 572–573 sub-footnote 3] 46 That is, at the same time when the dream mentioned immediately above was seen. [Mirza Bashir Ahmad]