Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 181
THE RENAISSANCE OF ISLAM 181 he asked his daughter Nawab Mubaraka Begum to pray concerning a matter that he had under consideration and to let him know if she should receive any intimation in response to her prayer. She carried out his direction and sawin a dream that Maulvi Nurud Din Sahib was sitting in an upper room with a book in his hand and said to her: 'This book contains the revelations vouchsafed to Hazrat Sahib concerning me. I am Abu Bakr. ' As Hazrat Abu Bakr was the first Successor of the Holy Prophet, peace be on him, this was clearly an indication that Maulvi Nurud Din Sahib would be the first Successor of the Promised Messiah, and that the latter's death was approaching. Mubaraka Begum related her dream to her father who warned her not to mention it to her mother. He had fixed 27 April as the day of his departure for Lahore. In the early hours of 26 April he received the revela- tion (Persian): 'Do not feel secure against the chances of the game of life. ' These and other indications created an impres- sion on his mind that he would probably end his days in L,ahore. Nevertheless, he decided to set out upon his journey as already planned, and left Qadian on the morning of 27 April. Stop ing in Batala for a day, he arrived in Lahore on 29 April and put up in Ahmadiyya Buildings on Brandreth Road, first in the portion that belonged to Khwaja Kamalud Din Sahib, and then on 9 May 'moved over next door into the portion belonging to Dr Syed Muhammad Husain Sahib, on receiving the revelation (Arabic): 'It is time to move; again, it is time to move. ' He realized what the revelation portended, but as was his wont, he desired to carry it out literally also. In Lahore he became even busier than he had be~n at Qadian as there was every day a succession of visitors, both Muslim and non-Muslim, and he gave them most generously of his time and attention. Among his visitors was Mr Clement Rigg, an English Professor of Astronomy, to whom he granted long inter- views on 12 and 18 May, during which the Professor pre- sented many questions of philosophic and scientific character and was mos~ impressed with the replies that he received.