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Miscellaneous Signs 211 to death. Just before stoning him to death, the Amir once again advised him, “There still is time for you to revoke the Bai‘at and turn back. " "This shall never be," he replied. "My end is near. I would never prefer the life of this world over my faith. ” It is reported that after witnessing such perseverance on his part, hundreds of people were awestruck and declared, "How unshakable is his faith! We have never seen anything like it. " And there were many who said, 'If the man, to whom he pledged allegiance of Bai'at had not been sent from God, Ṣāḥibzāda ‘Abdul Laṭīf would never have shown such perseverance. ' Thereafter this innocent man was stoned to death but he did not let out so much as a cry. [Haqiqat-ul-Waḥi, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 22, pp. 359-360] إِنِّي رَأَيْتُ فِي مُبَشِّرَةٍ أُرِيتُهَا جَمَاعَةً مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الْمُخْلِصِينَ وَالْمُلُوكِ الْعَادِلِينَ الصَّالِحِينَ بَعْضُهُمُ مِنْ هَذَا الْمُلْكِ وَ بَعْضُهُمْ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ وَ بَعْضُهُمُ مِنْ فَارِسِ وَ بَعْضُهُمْ مِنْ بِلَادِ الشَّامِ وَ بَعْضُهُمْ مِنْ أَرْضِ الرُّوْمِ وَ بَعْضُهُمْ مِنْ بِلَادٍ لَا أَعْرِفُهَا ثُمَّ قِيْلَ لِى مِنْ حَضْرَةِ الْغَيْبِ إِنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ يُصَدِّقُونَكَ وَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِكَ وَيُصَلُّونَ عَلَيْكَ وَيَدْعُونَ لَكَ وَ أُعْطِي لَكَ بَرَكَاتٍ حَتَّى يَتَبَوَّكَ الْمُلُوكُ بِثِيَابِكَ وَ أُدْخِلُهُمْ فِى الْمُخْلِصِينَ هَذَا رَأَيْتُ فِي الْمَنَامِ وَالْهِمُتُ مِنَ اللَّهِ الْعَلَّام 75 [Lujjat-un-Nūr, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 16, pp. 339-340] 75 In a dream I saw a group of people who included true and righteous believers and just kings. Some of them belonged to this country and some were from Arabia and Persia and Syria and the Ottoman Empire, and some from countries unknown to me. Then the Lord of the unseen said to me, 'Surely, these are the ones who testify to thy truthfulness, and believe in thee, and invoke blessings on thee, and pray for thee. . And I shall bless thee so much so that kings shall seek blessings from thy garments; and I shall count them among the sincere ones. " This is what I saw in the dream, and this is what was revealed to me by Allāh, the All-Knowing. [Publisher]