Tadhkirah — Page 375
1896 375 When I completed writing the paper, it was revealed to me from Allah the Almighty: [Urdu] The paper has been declared supreme. [ H aq iq atu l -Wa hi , p. 279, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 22, p. 291] 1896 I have on several occasions met in vision, in a state of complete wakefulness, some persons who had been dead. I saw that the bodies of some of the evildoers and the erring ones were so black as if they had been compounded of smoke. [Isl ami U sul ki Philosophy, p. 146, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 10, p. 405] 1896 I was delighted a few days ago to receive the cheering revelation from God Almighty: respected people had sympathies with this noble cause was apparent from the fact that these people gathered like this and then stood, at that time, for four to five hours with patience and forbearance. . . Even though the committee had assigned only two hours for this essay, the participants of the conference generally developed such interest in it that the moderators allowed, with pleasure and fervour, the proceedings of the conference to continue until this essay was finished. This decision of theirs was exactly in line with the wishes of the organizers and participants of the conference; because the participants and the moderators thanked Maulav i Ab u Y u suf Mub a rak ‘Al i with a loud applause when, after the elapsing of the assigned time, he gave his time to this essay as well… The essay was finished in about four hours and carried a sustained interest and popularity from the beginning to the end. [See Report on the Conference of Great Religions, pp. 79–80]