Tadhkirah — Page 38
38 As soon as I woke up I felt sure that Maulav i ‘Abdull a h would soon die 44 and that a special grace had been decreed for me in the heavens. Thereafter, I felt all the time that a heavenly power was working inside me until I began to receive revelation in continuous succession. In that one night, Allah the Almighty perfected in me a change of the kind which cannot be brought about by the hand of man or by man’s volition. 45 It seems to me that Maulav i ‘Abdull a h Ghaznav i had been drawn to the Punjab to bear witness to the light which was to be vouchsafed to me and he bore such witness. His testimony was affirmed by Ha fi z Muhammad Y u suf and his brother Muhammad Ya ‘ q u b but later they were overcome by the love of the world. I declare on oath in the name of God—whose false oath is the act of curse—that Maulav i ‘Abdull a h made an affirmation of my claim in my dream. I pray that if this statement of mine, which I have made on oath, is false, then Allah the Almighty might be pleased to bring about my death in great torment within the lifetime of the progeny of Maulav i ‘Abdull a h and his followers and disciples; and if I have told the truth, then God might be pleased to make me prevail and to confound them, or to guide them aright. Maulav i ‘Abdull a h’s own words were: ‘You have been given the sword of heavenly Signs and other reasoning. When I was in the world I was hoping that God would raise such a person in the world. ’ This is the dream that I 44 Maulav i ‘Abdull a h Ghaznav i passed away on Tuesday, Rab i ‘ul- Awwal 15, 1298 AH, February 15, 1881 CE. See Ish a ‘atus-Sunnah , volume 4, number 1. [Publishers] 45 This dream is also mentioned in Tiry a qul-Qul u b , pages 94–95, R uha n i Khaz a ’in , volume 15, pages 351–352. [Publishers]