Tadhkirah — Page 926
926 November 2, 1906 I saw (in my dream) that I was sitting somewhere at night and another person was with me. I looked at the sky and saw that many stars were clustered at one place. I looked towards those stars and, pointing to them, said: [Urdu] The kingdom of heaven Then I perceived that there was someone at the door knocking at it. When I opened the door I found that it was a lunatic whose name was M i r a ń Bakhsh. He shook hands with me and came in. There was another person with him but he neither shook hands with me nor did he come in. I interpreted this to mean that the kingdom of heaven stood for the chosen people from among the members of my Community whom God will spread in the earth and the lunatic is someone proud, arrogant, wealthy, or bigoted person whom God will enable to take the pledge of allegiance ( bai‘at ). Then I received the revelation as if I was trying to comfort someone: [Arabic] Be not afraid, Allah is with us. [Badr, vol. 2, no. 45, November 8, 1906, p. 3 and al- H akam, vol. 10, no. 38, November 10, 1906, p. 1] November 7, 1906 Last night, about midnight, I was talking to my wife that: ‘The monthly expenses of the public kitchen have now exceeded 1, 500 rupees; should we take a loan?’ Then I thought a loan would not help much for even if I borrowed 2,000 rupees that would be spent within a month. Then I