Tadhkirah — Page 816
816 January 26, 1906 The Promised Messiah [as] said: I was thinking of the difficulties in the way of [this] Righteous Community, when I received the revelation: [Arabic] An ark and comfort. [Badr, vol. 2, no. 5, February 2, 1906, p. 2 and al- H akam, vol. 10, no. 4, January 31, 1906, p. 3] January 26, 1906 [In my dream] I saw a square box which had two sections. In one section death was sitting in the form of a woman and in the other there was her daughter. That woman was Note by Hadrat Maul ana Jalal-ud-Din Shams ra : Apart from other meanings, this revelation was also fulfilled literally. B a b u Na si r Ahmad Commissariat Agent Camp Ambala published his eye witness account in al- H akam. He writes: On February 22, 1906, at about 4:30 p. m. , smoke started flaring near plague quarantine and started rising towards the sky. The smoke had light like the lightening and sound like cannons being fired. The smoke arose from the north and started moving towards the south. It totally demolished the roof of a brick building which was used for inoculation for tuberculosis. That is not all. Thereafter, this Sign of God fell upon the government butchery which was about two furlongs* away and demolished its masonry top and a wall in its compound. A few people suffered minor injuries. Three out of four bullock carts present at the spot were turned upside down and a huge acacia tree was uprooted. Seven or eight other acacia trees were broken down. One part of a pair of scales which had been fixed in the ground was whirled about a furlong away in a field. Then, after demolishing the courtyard of the police post, the smoke disappeared. [Letter of Na si r Ahmad, June 24, 1906, al- H akam, vol. 10, no. 8, March 10, 1906, p. 3] * Furlong is equal to 220 yards or 1 / 8 of a mile. [Publishers]