Tadhkirah — Page 598
598 sleep, so I put away my pen and slept. In my dream I saw Maulav i Muhammad H usain of Batala and Maulav i ‘Abdull a h Chakrh a lav i. Addressing both of them, I said: Meaning that [Arabic] The moon and the sun have already been eclipsed in the month of Ram ad an, then why do you both gentlemen belie the favour of your Lord? I then said to Akhw i m 647 Maulav i ‘Abdul-Kar i m in my dream: ‘The favour of your Lord’ in this context means me. Then I looked up at a veranda where a light was burning as if it was night time, and some people were copying this revelation from the Holy Qur’an with the help of the light, and I had a feeling that this revelation was to be found in the Holy Qur’an in the same sequence. I recognised one of those people as Miy a ń Nab i Bakhsh darner of Amritsar. [Review ber Mub a hath a Bat a lv i wa Chakrh a lv i, p. 3 footnote, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 19, p. 209 footnote] November 22, 1902 Last night I saw in a dream a fruit-bearing tree laden with delicious and beautiful fruits, and that some people were trying to train a creeper onto the tree. The creeper had no root…. It appeared to be like a parasite. As the creeper spread on the tree, it damaged its fruits and the tree was losing its beauty and becoming unattractive. Some of its expected fruits were likely to be lost and some had been 646 The reference is to the Review on the Debate between Chakrh a lv i and Bat a lv i , dated November 27, 1902. R uha n i Khaz a ’in , volume 19, page 206–216. [Mirza Bashir Ahmad] 647 A title of love and affection. The literal meaning is: Our brother. [Publishers]