Tadhkirah — Page 430
430 immediately to the ground and then supplicated to the Almighty God that the piece of rock may be turned into a buffalo, and I was completely absorbed in this prayer. Thereafter, when I lifted up my head I saw that the stone had become a buffalo. I looked first of all at its eyes which were very big and bright. Seeing that God had turned a stone, which had no eyes, into a handsome buffalo with big and bright eyes—and it is a useful animal—I was deeply moved and recalling the power of God I immediately fell into prostration and glorified God Almighty in a loud voice in the words: 472 My voice was so loud that I felt it must have carried over a long distance. Then I said to a woman who was standing near me and whose name is Bh a no 473 , and it was probably she who had asked me to make the supplication: See how Powerful our God is, who has made a stone into a buffalo and has bestowed eyes on it. While I said this to her my heart was once again deeply moved by the thought of God’s power and was again filled with His praise and again I fell into prostration. Every time my heart was moved at the thought: Lord, how great is Your Majesty and how wonderful are Your acts that You have turned a lifeless stone into a buffalo and have bestowed upon it big and bright eyes through which it sees everything. Not only this, but we hope to obtain milk from it too. I was still in 472 [Arabic] My Lord is the High, my Lord is the High. [Publishers] 473 Bh a no was a sincere Ahmad i lady who lived in Basr a w a ń , close to Qadian. She was a frequent visitor of the household of the Promised Messiah as. [Jalal-ud-Din Shams]