Tadhkirah — Page 19
E ARLY Y EARS – 1881 19 About 1872 The Promised Messiah [as] said, about thirty years ago, in a dream I saw great flashes of lightning at the place where the school now stands. The interpretation of seeing flashes of lightning in a dream is that the spot would be populated. [al-Badr, vol. 1, no. 8, December 19, 1902, p. 58, column 3] About 1872 About ten years ago, I saw Hadrat Mas ih [Messiah] , may peace be upon him, in a dream. The Mas ih as and I ate together from the same dish. During the meal we were very intimate and affectionate with each other like two brothers or two companions and friends of long standing. Afterwards, in the same place where I am now writing, the Mas ih as , I, and a perfectly righteous descendant of the Holy Prophet sa happily stayed together in the courtyard for some time. The descendant of the Holy Prophet sa held a piece of paper in his hand in which the names of some eminent personalities from among the followers of the Holy Prophet sa were entered and it also included words of praise which had been bestowed upon them by Allah the Almighty. He started reading this paper which seemingly indicated that he wanted to inform the Mas ih as of the ranks, which are decreed by Allah, for the chosen ones from among the Muslims. All praise entered in that paper was on behalf of God the Almighty. When the reading of the paper was approaching its end and only a small portion of it was left, the name of this humble one was mentioned and the following appreciation was entered in it in the Arabic language as proceeding from God the Almighty: