Tadhkirah — Page 621
1903 621 [al-Badr, vol. 2, no. 3, February 6, 1903, p. 24 and al- H akam, vol. 7, no. 6, February 14, 1903, p. 7] January 30, 1903 The same night 684 I saw in a dream as if the sceptre of the Czar of Russia was in my hand and hidden inside it was the barrel of a gun and thus it served two purposes. Then I saw that the bow of the king who reigned at the time of B u ‘Al i S i n a [Avicenna] was in my hand and I had shot an arrow at a tiger. It appears as if B u ‘Al i S i n a and the king were also with me. [Notebook of the Revelations of the Promised Messiah as , p. 4] 685 January 31, 1903 686 [Notebook of the Revelations of the Promised Messiah as , p. 4] 1903 [Maw a hibur-Ra hma n, p. 139, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 19, p. 360] That is [Arabic] All praise belongs to Allah Who has bestowed upon me in my old age four sons and has thus fulfilled His promise …[and] has given me the good news of a fifth one—who 684 That is the night in which the revelation was received. [Abdul Latif Bahawalpuri] 685 This dream is also recorded in al- H akam and al-Badr with some variation of words. See al- H akam, volume 7, number 4, January 31, 1903 page 15 and al-Badr , volume 2, number 3, February 6, 1903, page 24. [Abdul Latif Bahawalpuri] 686 [Arabic] Verily, Allah is Compassionate, Merciful. [Publishers]