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E ARLY Y EARS – 1881 17 khatr i 20 Hindu, who is alive and present in Qadian, would not be acquitted in a criminal case, but that his sentence would be reduced by one-half, and that his fellow prisoner named Khush Ha l, who is also alive and present in Qadian, would serve out the whole of his sentence. A trial was encountered about this aspect of the vision. It so happened that when the Chief Court remitted the case to the lower court, in accordance with the prophecy of my humble self, the relatives of the two accused persons considered this remittal as an acquittal and announced the news in the town that both of them had been acquitted of the crime. I recall that this news spread in town during the evening. I was ready to offer the ‘ Ish a’ Prayer while I was in the mosque, when one of the worshippers stated that this news had been spread in town and that the accused persons had returned to town. As I had publicly announced that they would certainly not be acquitted, I became prey to indescribable grief and sorrow. Then God, who always lends support to this humble servant of His, gave me the glad tiding at the beginning or during the course of the Prayer with this revelation: 21 Accordingly, the next morning it became clear that the news about the acquittal was totally false and that the result was exactly as my humble self had been foretold and of which Sharampat, the A rya, and several other people had been apprised in advance. [Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah, part 4, pp. 550–551 sub-footnote 4, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 1, pp. 657–658 sub-footnote 4] 20 Belonging to the military caste. [Publishers] 21 [Arabic] Fear not, for you will have the upper hand. [Publishers]