Tadhkirah — Page 167
1885 167 This pelting had great affinity to the pelting of the stars in the sky. This exhibition of the pelting of stars that occurred on the night of November 28, 1885 was so vast that it was visible all over and was described in great wonder in the papers of Europe, America and Asia. People might have thought that it was purposeless, yet God, the Noble, knows that I was the one who watched this spectacle with the greatest attention and derived the greatest delight from it. My eyes continued to be regaled by this spectacle for a long time. This display of the pelting of the stars started early in the evening. Because of divine glad-tidings, I derived great pleasure from it, for it was revealed upon my heart that it had appeared as a Sign in my support. Thereafter, the people of Europe saw the comet which had been observed in the time of Hadrat Mas ih as [Messiah] and it was conveyed to me that this comet was another Sign in support of my truth. [ A ’ i na-e-Kam a l a t-e-Isl a m, pp. 110–111 footnote, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 5, pp. 110–111 footnote] November 1885 (A) Some frightening indications have been conveyed to me by Allah with regard to myself, some of my collateral relatives, some of my friends, some of my national brethren with philosophic bent of mind who are eminent as if they were Najmul-Hind [the stars of India] 193 , and about a native 192 The translation is taken from Haq i qatul-Wa hi , p. 70, R uha n i Khaz a ’in vol. 22, p. 73. [Jalal-ud-Din Shams] 193 Note by Hadrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad ra : (A) In an announcement of March 12, 1897, addressing Sir Sayyed Ahmad Kh a n the Promised Messiah as said: