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1884 151 humility and earnestness. Rather than being sympathetic, I reacted angrily upon reading the letter because of his great concern and anxiety about a worldly matter. Immediately after reading it, I destroyed the letter with great dislike and aversion, being reluctant to make a supplication in respect of a worldly affair to my Lord. As soon as I destroyed the letter, I received the revelation: 174 [Urdu] Will be successful. This wonderful revelation was also communicated to several people and in fact he succeeded in the examination. [Allah be praised for this]. [Letter dated May 11, 1884, addressed to Navv a b ‘Al i Muhammad Kh a n of Jhajjar and al- H akam, vol. 3, no. 34 dated September 23, 1899, pp. 1, 2] 1884 On one occasion Navv a b ‘Al i Muhammad Kh a n 175 (deceased), Chief of Ludhiana, wrote a letter to me that some of the sources of his income had been blocked and he asked me to supplicate that they might be restored. When I supplicated, I received the revelation: [Urdu] Will be restored. 174 al- H akam version cites: meaning: ‘May he pass’ which seems to be a scribe’s error. [Abdul Latif Bahawalpuri] 175 Please note that Navv a b ‘Al i Muhammad Kh a n was the Chief of Jhajjar, but lived in Ludhiana. He was very devoted to the Promised Messiah as and wrote to him often for prayers for the relief of his troubles. The order and the dates of the Signs mentioned about him are not known precisely, except one or two. The best estimate is that they belong to 1884 or thereabout. [Mirza Bashir Ahmad]