Hazrat Mir Muhammad Ismail (ra) — Page 46
46 Ḥaḍrat Mir Muhammad Ismai l ra died on Friday, the 18th of July 1947. Incidentally, he was also born on the 18th of July, in 1881. He died on his sixty sixth birthday. He lived in this world for exactly sixty - six years, not a day more, not a day less. He lived in this world for as m any years as the numerical value of the name his True Love - Allah. The manner in which these events unfolded, could neither have been a mere coincidence, nor for that matter, a human plan. It was obviously not in his power to live for as many years as the number of the word "Allah", nor was it in his control to make the blessed day of Friday fall on the day of his death. If anything, this was sheer destiny. This was Divine Decree. This was a sign from Heaven, that the offering of his "life" that had bee n demanded, had also been accepted. It is said that if someone is truly in love, he lives and dies for his beloved. Ḥaḍrat Mir Sahib ra , too , lived every moment of his life, for his Beloved, and when his time finally came, he died, in the most literal sense, "in the name" of his Beloved. The wonderful spiritual experience recounted in his article "A night in the Taver n of Adoration", has also been expressed by him in a poem of his. He writes: The heart - a flame. The eyes - a pouring cloud. I am content neither this way, nor that way. I tore open my apparel, in a frenzy of love. I behaved as though my sanity had l eft me. There was a time when all night I would circuit my Beloved's abode ,