Tadhkirah — Page 266
266 and the age of my wife and convert the evil of this dream into good. You have power over all things. A m i n. I have put my trust in You. [Register of Miscellaneous Memoranda by the Promised Messiah as , p. 44] September 27, 1892 307 On one occasion I received a letter from Sayyed Muhammad Ism a ‘ i l, the brother of my wife (who was at that time ten years old), who wrote from Patiala to the effect that his mother had died and there was no one to look after his younger brother Is ha q. At the end of the letter there was a note that Is ha q had also died and that we should come [to Patiala] immediately. This letter caused me great anxiety, more particularly as my wife had high fever at the time. In this state of anxiety I was overcome by a light slumber and the revelation came: That is [Arabic] O women! Great are your stratagems. …From this I understood immediately that this was merely a ruse. Then…I sent my servant Sheikh Ha mid ‘Al i to Patiala and on his return he told us that both Is ha q and his mother were alive and safe. [Nuz ul u l-M as ih , pp. 232–233, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 18, pp. 610–611] September 30, 1892 308 307 This date is taken from the Promised Messiah’s as Register of Miscellaneous Memoranda (page 44) which is available in the Khilafat Library, Rabwah. [Abdul Latif Bahawalpuri]