Truth About the Split — Page 231
231 continued however to have no idea of the trouble until I had the following dream. I dreamt that there was a house divided into two parts. One part was complete, while the other was yet unfinished. The unfinished part was being-roofed over. The rafters had been laid but the planks had not yet been nailed. Upon the rafters was placed some straw and near it stood Mir Muhammad Ishaq, my younger brother Mirza Bashir Ahmad, and another boy, a relative of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra , named Nisar Ahmad, who has since left the world—(may God shower His mercy upon him). Mir Muhammad Ishaq held in his hand a match-box, and it seemed he was about to strike a match in order to set fire to the straw. I tried to stop him, saying that the straw, it was true, would ultimately be burnt, but time for it had not yet come. He therefore should not set fire to it yet, lest some of the rafters also should get burnt along with the straw. This made him desist from the attempt, and I walked away. I had not gone far when I heard a noise, and turning back I saw Mir Sahib hurriedly striking match after match and trying to set fire to the straw. He was in a hurry fearing I should return and stop him and owing to this haste the matches were extinguished as soon as lighted. Upon seeing this I ran back with a view to stopping him, but before I could