The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 203
Miscellaneous Signs ضَاقَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الْأَرْضُ بِمَا رَحُبَتْ 7 203 applied perfectly to our condition. It was a calamity that had appeared out of nowhere. Thus I prayed to. God and sought His help, after which I received the revelation which follows. This revelation was not received bit by bit at different times, but was revealed at one and the same time. I remember that when the revelation began, Sayyed Faḍl Shāh of Lahore, brother of Sayyed Nāṣir Shāh, who was an overseer stationed at Bāramūla, Kashmir, was kneading my feet. It was noon when this series of revelations relating to the case began. I told Sayyed Sahib that this revelation was about the lawsuit relating to the wall and he should write it down as I receive it. He therefore took up pen and paper. It so happened that every time drowsiness came over me, Divine revelation would come sentence by sentence as is the way of. God and after one sentence was completed and written down, I would again feel drowsy and the next sentence would flow from my tongue, until the entire revelation was completed and written down by Sayyed. Faḍl Shāh of Lahore. I was given to understand that these revelations related to the case relating to the wall that had been erected by Imam-ud-Din, and I understood that in the end the case would be decided in our favour. Accordingly, I announced these revelations to a large number of my followers and informed them of their meaning and the occasion of their being revealed. 70. The earth seemed too narrow for them despite all its vastness. -Al-Taubah, 9:118 [Publisher]