Tadhkirah — Page 67
1882 67 …Quite involuntarily the thought welled up in my mind that I should supplicate God, the One, for resolving my difficulty so that, through acceptance of my prayer, I should not only overcome my difficulty but also furnish a proof of divine support to my opponents—a Sign of which they should become witnesses. So I supplicated the same day and begged that, as a sign, I might be informed of the coming of help. Thereupon, I received the revelation: Then will you go to Amritsar. [Urdu] After ten days I shall demonstrate my [surging] Sign. [Arabic] [ Hearken! The help of Allah is near like a pregnant she-camel in labour. ] [English] Then will you go to Amritsar. i. e. , money would arrive after ten days and that God’s succour is as close as the end of the labour of a she-camel when she is about to give birth to her foal. Then He said in English that: After ten days when the money will arrive then will you go to Amritsar. All this was fulfilled in the presence of the A ryas exactly as had been foretold. Nothing at all was received during the first ten days and then on the eleventh day 110 rupees were received from Muhammad Af d al Kh a n, Superintendent, Settlement, Rawalpindi, and twenty rupees were received from another source and thereafter money began to arrive unexpectedly. On the same day when the money was received from Muhammad Af d al Kh a n and others I had to go to Amritsar as I received summons from the Small Causes Court, Amritsar, to appear as a witness. [Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah, part 4, pp. 469–470 sub-footnote 3, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 1, pp. 559–561 sub-footnote 3]