My Mother — Page 80
80 emphatic ‘shall be’ all indicated that what was to happen would happen despite its apparent improbability. My identification as the son of my father, whose name Nasrullah meant Divine help, indicated that the consummation would not be brought about as a normal process, but through the special grace of Allah. It was also implied that during the intervening period, through Allah’s grace, I would not fall into obscurity or indigence. The dream was fulfilled in 1970, thirty-six years after saw it; thirty-two years after her death. The court with ref- erence to which it was fulfilled was not established till February 6, 1946, which incidentally was my fifty-third birthday. Its fulfil- ment and the history and process of its fulfilment provide for the sceptical and materialistic world of today positive and irrefutable proof of the existence of the All-Knowing, All-Powerful God, with whom a humble and almost unlettered handmaiden of His, whose principal quality was the fear and love of God, could estab- lish direct relationship. As the fulfilment of the dream was the culmination of my public career, it would be most instructive to trace very briefly the relevant incidents of my public career which tended in one direction or the other in that context.