Tadhkirah — Page 861
1906 861 (2) [Translation] [Arabic] God sends down His Spirit of prophethood on whomsoever He wills from among His servants. (3) [Urdu] What a high design has been accomplished by God’s feeling 1057 and His Seal. [Badr, vol. 2, no. 23, June 7, 1906, p. 2 and al- H akam, vol. 10, no. 20, June 10, 1906, p. 1] June 7, 1906 It has been conveyed to me by revelation that in the family of Miy a ń Man zu r Mu h ammad, that is to Muhammad i Begum, a son will be born, who will have two names: (1) Bash i rud-Daulah (2) ‘ A lam Kab a b Both of these names were revealed to me. My interpretation and understanding concerning these is as follows: (1) Bash i rud-Daulah means that he would be a good augury for our glory and prosperity. After his birth (or after his achieving his discretion), the prophecy concerning the great 1057 This means that God felt that the world had been corrupted and was in need of a great reformer and God’s Seal achieved this purpose that a follower of the Holy Prophet, on whom be the peace and blessings of Allah, has been raised to a rank whereby he is both a follower and a Prophet at the same time. Allah the Glorious, made the Holy Prophet, on whom be the peace and blessings of Allah, the Seal of the Prophets, that is to say, He invested him with a seal for the purpose of perfecting the spiritual evolution of his followers with which no other Prophet had been invested. That is why he was named Kh a tamun- Nabiyy i n [the Seal of the Prophets], meaning that perfect obedience to him would make a person worthy of achieving the qualities of Prophethood and his spiritual attention would raise a person to Prophethood. No other Prophet has been invested with this power of purification. [ H aq iq atu l -Wa hi , pp. 96–97 footnote. R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 22, pp. 99–100]