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Status of the Promised Messiahas 23 and has admitted me to the rank of those who have been favoured with bounties. [Nūr-ul-Haq, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Part 1, vol. 8, pp. 38-39] میں وہ پانی ہوں کہ آیا آسماں سے وقت پر وہ ہوں نورِ خدا جس سے ہوا دن آشکار 10 میں [Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyyah, Part V, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 21, p. 145]. I cannot say what I have done that has made me the recipient of this divine favour, but I feel my heart involuntarily drawn towards God Almighty with such deep loyalty that it cannot be restrained by any other consideration. So all this is pure Divine bounty. I have never submitted myself to rigorous physical discipline, nor have I subjected myself to hard exercises like some contemporary Șufis, nor did. I undertake retreat in complete mystic solitude. Nor, indeed, have I done anything by of asceticism which is contrary to the practice of the Holy Prophets, or which may be objectionable according to the Word of God Almighty. Indeed, I have always felt abhorred by the fakirs and those who introduce all sorts of innovations in faith. However, during the lifetime of my father, when his death was approaching, it so happened that I saw in a dream a holy man who was elderly and had a pure countenance, and he pointed out to me that it is the tradition of the family of the. Holy Prophet to observe some days of fasting in 16. I am the water that has descended from heaven at its due time;. I am the Divine light, which has illumined the day. [Translator]