The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 173
Miscellaneous Signs 173 me in advance of any worldly gift that He desires to bestow on me. Quite often He informs me that tomorrow I will eat or drink such and such a thing, or a particular thing will be given to me. And so it comes to pass. Everyone, after living in my company for a few weeks, can testify to such happenings. [Tiryāq-ul-Qulub, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 15, pp. 199-200]. Once I received a specific revelation that on that day I would receive exactly twenty-one rupees, not an anna more or less. Therefore, in order to give the lie to the. Aryas of Qadian, I informed them that this amount would be forthcoming. Hearing this an Arya went to investigate. He returned and announced gleefully that only five rupees had been received. Then again I received the revelation 'Twenty-one rupees have arrived. '. Another Arya then rushed to the post office and brought back the news that in fact twenty rupees had arrived, and that the post office had been mistaken in reporting five rupees. After this a man named Wazir Singh paid one rupee for medical treatment. Thus the amount added up to twenty-one rupees. The twenty rupees had been sent to me by Munshi Ilāhī Bakhsh, Accountant. . When this prophecy had thus been fulfilled so clearly and the Aryas had borne witness to it, I bought sweetmeats worth one rupee and distributed them among the. Aryas so that they may always remember this prophecy. [Nuzul-ul-Masīḥ, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 18, p. 512]. Once this Divine revelation issued from my tongue: 'Abdullah Khan, Dera Ismā'īl Khan. It was still morning and some Hindus happened to be with me,