Tadhkirah — Page 451
1900 451 Indeed, he was hostile to Islam itself. He had also come to know that the avenues of filing a suit successfully were blocked for us; therefore, he became more arrogant. In the end, we left the whole matter in the hands of God Almighty…. Im a m-ud-D i n intended further mischief. He used to stand in the courtyard in front of our house where our visitors used to arrive and continuously obstructed them and abused us. Moreover, he was now preparing that after our suit was dismissed, he would erect a long wall in front of our doors so that we would be completely besieged and should not be able to go in and out. These were days of great anxiety for us, so much so that it might be said about us that [the earth, with all its vastness, became too straitened for them. ] All this had arisen very suddenly. I supplicated the Divine and beseeched His help, whereupon, I received the revelation given later. These revelations were not received at different times but at one time, one after the other. I recall that at that time Sayyed Fa d l Sh a h of Lahore, brother of Sayyed N as ir Sh a h, Overseer Barah Mula (Kashmir) was massaging my feet and it was noon time when the revelations relating to [this case about] the wall began to be received. I told Sayyed [Fa d l Sh a h] that the revelations were concerning the case of the wall and he should take them down as they were received. He took the pen and paper and it so happened that every time there was a slight slumber, the revelation came sentence by sentence, and flowed from my tongue as is the way of Allah. 500 When one sentence was 500 It is worth noting that the good news contained in the revelation begins with the word fa d l [grace] and the name of the person who took down the revelation as it came was also fa d l. [ Haqiqatul-Wahi , p. 267 footnote, R u h a n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 22, p. 280]