Fazl-e-Umar — Page 86
Fazle Umar 86 excellence had spread far and wide. He was one of the teachers of Hadhrat Sahibzada Sahib. He states: “Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih II [ra] was taught by me and so one day I asked him, Mian! Your father receives revelation in abundance. Do you receive revelation and dreams etc. ? Mian sahib replied: Maulvi sahib! I have many dreams and there is one dream I see nearly every day. From the moment my head touches the pillow to the moment I wake up in the morning I dream that there I am leading an army. And sometimes I see us crossing oceans to fight an adversary. And many times it has happened that if I have nothing to make the crossing with, I make a boat out of reeds etc. and with it make the crossing to attack the enemy. When I heard this dream from him, the thing imprinted on my heart since then was that this man will lead the Jama’at (Ahmadiyya Community) some time in the future. From then on I stopped teaching him while sitting in the classroom. I would sit him in my chair while I sat in his place and began to teach him. Upon hearing the dream I also requested him that Mian! Please do not forget me when you get older, please keep me in your loving sight. ” 55 On the subject of receiving revelation in his childhood, one of his old playmates states: “Maybe this fact has been recorded or has been printed somewhere, but I feel it important to mention that when he was studying with me in the Ta’limul Islam school, he stated that he had received the following verse in revelation: ‘I will place those who follow thee above those who disbelieve until the Day of Resurection’. “And he also stated that he had mentioned it to the Promised Messiah [as] that I have received this revelation. ” 56