Tadhkirah — Page 575
1902 575 Meaning that [Arabic] Jab i z descended upon him, but he took it to be revelation or true dream. By jab i z is meant dry and tasteless bread that has no sweetness and is difficult to swallow. The term is also applied to a person who is niggardly or a target of reprobation, whose nature abounds in the elements of meanness, helplessness and niggardliness. In this context, it refers to a dream or revelation that is the result of one’s own imagination or of one’s own desire and which is not accompanied by any heavenly light or any spiritual truth and smells of niggardliness. Such imaginations are experienced by people who lack spirituality but are very desirous of receiving revelations. Because of their desire, Satan descends upon their thoughts. Since it lacks any spirituality, the term jab i z has been employed for it by Allah the Almighty. A person who indulges too much in such an experience is in danger of going mad. The remedy is repentance and seeking forgiveness and total abandonment of such thinking. May Allah safeguard everyone from this calamity. [D afi ‘u l-B a la’, p. 23 footnote no. 1, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 18, p. 243] April 23, 1902 Last night, just at the time of the eclipse of the moon, I received a revelation concerning Char a gh D i n 615 , 616 : 614 Char a gh D i n of Jammu who denied the Promised Messiah as after having accepted him. [Mirza Bashir Ahmad] 615 Char a gh D i n of Jammu [Mirza Bashir Ahmad] 616 This man confirmed my prophecy concerning him by his own death and that of his two sons by plague on April 4, 1906 in a state of