Tadhkirah — Page 457
1900 457 This was followed by the revelation: That is [Arabic] This address has been made eloquent 509 by God Almighty… Thereupon, I stood up after the ‘ I d Prayer to deliver the address in Arabic. God Almighty knows that the capacity was bestowed upon me from the unseen and the eloquent Arabic address proceeded from my mouth extempore, which was utterly beyond my capacity. I cannot imagine that, without the help of special divine revelation, a speech which extended over several juzw could be delivered [extempore] at such level of fluency and eloquence by anyone, unless it was first recorded on paper. This Arabic address has been named Khutbah Ilhamiyyah 510 and it was 509 Note by Hadrat Maul ana Jalal-ud-Din Shams ra : refers to the word kal a m [speech]. Since in its import the speech is plural, the feminine construction has been employed. It is an established usage in Arabic that the word kal a m, being a composite of several sentences, can be treated as plural. As a poet Maz ah ‘Aq i l i says: [See Lis a nul-‘Arab] 510 Note by Hadrat Maul ana Jalal-ud-Din Shams ra : Two dreams recorded in the words of the Promised Messiah as have been found about this revealed sermon. Under the date April 19, 1900, the Promised Messiah as wrote about a dream of Miy a ń ‘Abdull a h of Sannour ra in which Miy a ń ‘Abdull a h Sannour i said that Munsh i Ghul a m Q a dir (deceased) of Sannour had come there. Miy a ń ‘Abdull a h asked him about the gathering. He said there was a great clamour up there [in the heavens]. This dream is in exact accord with the dream of Sayyed Am i r ‘Al i Sh a h, because he had seen that when the Arabic address was being delivered on ‘ I d day, the Holy Prophet (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), Hadrat ‘ I sa as [Jesus], Hadrat M u s a as [Moses] and Hadrat Khi d r as were present among the audience listening to the sermon. He was shown this as a vision while he was sitting and listening to the sermon. [Writing of the Promised Messiah as on the title of the book Ta‘t i rul-An a m, available in the Khilafat Library, Rabwah]