Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 199
6 March 1908 199 carrion-consuming individuals, and do come true in many cases. So what is there to boast about in this that a son would be born to him? Distinction between the True Dreams of Ordinary People and the Revelations of God’s Appointees Some Hindus come to me and relate their dreams and also tell me that their dreams have proven true. By this they only want to raise the objection that what distinction is there about Islam regarding this. I can provide such examples where even some sinners, transgressors, criminals, idolators, thieves, adulterers, and robbers saw dreams, and some of them came true. So what is special about Maulawi Muhammad Husain in this regard? Sharampat is an Arya from here. He had told me that he was going to have a son [born to him] on the basis of his dream and the son was indeed born. Then at another time he said that Babu Allah Ditta would be transferred and this dream of his was also fulfilled. He cites Babu Allah Ditta as its witness of this also. So, are we to conclude from these things that Sharampat or other such people should, God forbid, be accepted by us as Prophets? The truth of the matter is actually that Allah has bestowed these faculties upon people from all echelons of society to hold human beings accountable and so that a witness is pro- vided from within one’s self to help him accept [the truth of ] prophethood. There are no prerequisites for true dreams. Allah the Exalted has, rather, endowed the constitution of man with the ability to see dreams lest he deny prophethood. Allah the Exalted has not set any prerequisite for man to experience true dreams. This faculty has been given to every human being irrespective of him being a Muslim or