The Heavenly Sign — Page 44
44 Nish a n-e- A sm a n i that time there was no sign of a river there, so we did not believe him, but, sometime later a canal was dug and it ran through the very spot which he had marked. Once he saw some men who were sinking a well and it was almost complete. He said to them, 'You are wasting your time, this well shall never be completed. ' This seemed so illogical since the well was all but finished, but at that very instant the well collapsed and disappeared leaving no trace. Once he told a man, ‘Al i Bakhsh by name, who was sitting on the roof, to leave that place and come over to the other side. But ‘Al i Bakhsh was reluctant to do so. At last Gul a b Sh a h made him get up. No sooner had ‘Al i Bakhsh left that place than the roof collapsed. Once he asked me whether my father had a broken tooth. I replied that he had. He said, 'He has entered Paradise. ' My father had died a long time ago, before Gul a b Sh a h had even come to live in our village, so he could not have known that my father had a broken tooth. He must have learnt about this through a vision and he gave me the glad tidings that my father had entered Paradise. It must also be mentioned that Gul a b Sh a h was a man of God, and a pious Muwa hh id. Being in the state of spiritual ecstasy, a fountain of Tau hi d flowed from his lips. From him I learnt the ways of Islam and manners of practising Tau hi d. I remembered Allah in the manner that he taught me till my heart underwent a metamorphosis and I began