Tadhkirah — Page 45
E ARLY Y EARS – 1881 45 up to the sky. When I turned it to the right thousands of my opponents were killed and when I turned it to the left thousands of my enemies were killed. H a dr a t ‘Abdull a h, may Allah be pleased with him, was very pleased to hear this dream of mine. With his face beaming with cheerfulness, happiness, and clear conviction, he said: ‘The interpretation of your dream is that God will employ you for high purposes. Wielding the sword on the right and killing opponents means that the task will be accomplished through spiritual light and the manifestations of spiritual Signs; while wielding it to the left and slaughtering thousands of enemies means that Allah will employ you to confound them with reason and argument and thus in both ways Allah will establish the truth. ’ He added: ‘When I was in the world I was hoping that God will surely raise such a person. ’ Then he took me to a large building in which a number of righteous and godly people were sitting, all of them armed in military fashion and sitting upright as if waiting for some command immediately expected for the performance of some military task …. This blessed dream, which is really a type of vision, points to the same Signs of the Messiah that I have mentioned above. That the slaughter of swine and killing of infidels by the Messiah has the same import: he will convey the divine arguments convincingly and will frustrate them through the sword of argument. [Allah knows best. ] [Iz a la-e-Auh a m, pp. 83–92 footnote, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 3, pp. 143–147 footnote] About 1881 (A) In His revelation God has also called me the Baitull a h [House of Allah], which indicates that the more my