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50 guidance which has been planted at my hand far and wide in the world. It is a curious coincidence that just as the grandmother of the Sayyeds was named Shehr B a no , in the same way my wife who will be the mother of my progeny is named Nu s rat Jah a n Begum [Lady Help of the World]. This seems to be an indication that God has laid the foundation of my progeny to help the whole world. It is the way of God that prophecies are sometimes indicated through names. [Tiry a qul-Qul u b, pp. 64–65, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 15, pp. 273–274] About 1881 About eighteen years ago, I had an opportunity to visit Maulav i Muhammad H usain Bat a lav i , Editor of Ish a ‘atus- Sunnah at his house. He asked me whether I had received any revelation lately and I mentioned to him the revelation, which I had already mentioned several times to my friends: 58 I interpreted this to him and to all others to mean that: God has intended to bring two women to me in marriage—the first time a virgin and the second time a widow. The first part of the revelation, relating to a virgin, has been fulfilled. By Allah’s grace, I have four sons from that wife. I await fulfilment of the part about the widow. 59 [Tiry a qul-Qul u b, p. 34, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 15, p. 201] 58 [Arabic] A virgin and a widow. [Publishers] 59 In my humble opinion both aspects of the revelation were fulfilled in the person of Hadrat Amm an J a n, who came as a virgin and remained behind as a widow. Allah knows best. [Mirza Bashir Ahmad]