Tadhkirah — Page 165
1885 165 1885 (A) About fourteen years ago I saw in a dream that my wife 189 had given birth to a fourth son and three were already present. I also saw in the dream that the ‘ aq i qah 190 of this fourth son was performed on Monday. When I saw this dream I had no son—not a single one—[from this wife] and yet I saw in my dream that I had four sons from this wife who were present before me and that the ‘ aq i qah of the youngest was performed on Monday. When this son, Mub a rak Ahmad, was born this dream had escaped my memory and Sunday was fixed for his ‘ aq i qah. But by God’s design it rained so much that the ‘ aq i qah could not be performed that day and was per force postponed to Monday. Then I recalled that fourteen years earlier I had seen a dream that a fourth son would be born to me and his ‘ aq iq ah would be performed on Monday. All the anxiety was then turned into joy observing how God Almighty had fulfilled His own word. We were working very hard to perform the ‘ aq iq ah on Sunday but could not do any thing and the ‘ aq iq ah was performed on Monday. This was a grand prophecy that four sons would be born during the period of fourteen years and the ‘ aq iq ah of the fourth would be performed on Monday. A person would not know that he would have four sons, all of which would remain alive. These are the doings of God. It is a pity that our people see these Signs and shut their eyes to them. [Makt u b a t-e-Ahmadiyyah, vol. 5, part 1, pp. 26–27, Letter dated June 27, 1899, addressed to Seth ‘AbdurRa hma n of Madras] 189 Hadrat Ummul-Mu’min i n ra [Jalal-ud-Din Shams] 190 Thanksgiving celebration and sacrifice at the birth of a child. [Munawar Ahmed Saeed]