Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 253
KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH 253 that “they will worship Me and will not associate anything with Me”. In accordance with this Divine promise I have never been afraid of anything by the grace of Allah, the Almighty. However, I am greatly cautious and I do not consider it a shortcoming, but a virtue. But when I am convinced of the correctness of a certain course of action, I do not care about the difficulties that may come in my way. This is the reason that in spite of great dangers Allah, the Almighty has always saved me from making compromises, and I have never been inclined to make an artificial reconciliation. A Dream about the Mischief of Mistries Once in a dream I saw myself while coming from Bahishti Maqbrah along with M i r Muhammad Is ha q ra. There was an ocean in the way. He and I both were sitting in the boat, and we sailed on. When the boat reached the place where there was the house of Mistries, it was entrapped in a whirlpool and started rotating. In the meanwhile a head appeared on the surface, who told us about the presence of the grave of a P i r there. He asked us to write a note to him so that the boat might come out of the whirlpool, and reach our destination safely. I said that it could not be so, as it was an act of faithlessness. After this the speed of rotation increased, and the danger of sinking of boat became evident. On this Mir Muhammad Is ha q ra said,