Tadhkirah — Page 16
16 would be reduced by one-half but he would not be acquitted; and that his companion would serve out the whole of his sentence and he would also not be acquitted. I thanked my Benevolent God when I woke up that He had safeguarded me against being embarrassed before an opponent, and I related this dream to a large number of people immediately and also informed that Hindu [L a lah Sharampat] of it the same day. [Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah, part 3, pp. 250–251 sub-footnote 1, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 1, pp. 277–279 sub-footnote 1] (B) Bishambar D a s had been imprisoned for a year and his brother Sharampat, an active A rya , had requested that I pray for him and had also enquired what the result of the case would be. I made my supplication and saw in a vision that I had gone to the office where the record of the case was kept and, opening the file, I had crossed out the words ‘one year’ and had written in their place the words ‘six months’. Then it was conveyed to me in a divine revelation that the case would be remitted by the Chief Court to the lower court and [that the sentence of Bishambar D a s] would be reduced from one year to six months, but that he would not be acquitted. I communicated the entire vision very clearly to Sharampat, the A rya, who is still alive. When everything happened as I had foretold, he wrote to me: ‘You are a righteous servant of God and that is why He has revealed these hidden matters to you. ’ [Sir a j-e-Mun i r, first edition, p. 35, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 12, p. 37] About 1870 (A) In this true dream of mine, which was like a clear vision, it was conveyed to me that one Bishambar D a s, a