Tadhkirah — Page 600
600 (B) Maulav i Rusul B a b a of Amritsar…was afflicted with the plague. During his illness, I received, on Friday, the revelation: Meaning that [Arabic] He would die before the following Friday. Accordingly he departed from this mortal world, before the next Friday, at 5:30 a. m. on Monday December 8, 1902. [ H aq iq atu l -Wa hi , pp. 299–300, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 22, pp. 312–313] December 6, 1902 (A) Last night I was in such a state that if I had not received Divine revelation, I would have been proved right in thinking that my last moment had arrived. While I was in this condition, I was overtaken by sleep and saw in my dream that I was in a cul-de-sac and three buffaloes 648 were coming towards me. When one of them approached me I beat it away and the same happened with the second one. Then the third advanced towards me. I felt that it was so strong that there was no way of deliverance from it. While this was passing through my mind, Allah the Almighty so ordained that it turned away. Taking advantage of this I slipped through brushing against it and began to run. I was thinking that it would be running after me but I did not look 648 After seeing this [vision] it was conveyed to me that some opponent of mine would prosecute me and will employ three lawyers against me. . . . Thereafter Karam D i n filed a complaint against me at Jhelum and I was summoned to appear [in the court]. It was a criminal proceeding and as I had seen in my vision, he had engaged three lawyers against me. In the end, in accordance with the promise of God, his complaint was dismissed. [ H aq iq atu l -Wa hi , p. 381, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 22, p. 395 and al-Badr, vol. 2, no. 1 & 2, January, 23 & 30, 1903, p. 11]