My Mother — Page 83
Fulfilment of Dream (A) 83 vacancy. The Governor-General, Lord Linlithgow, expressed his inability to spare me. As their difference could not be immedi- ately resolved, the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, Sir John Beaumont, was appointed temporarily as Acting Judge of the Federal Court. I was not aware of the difference between the Governor-General and the Chief Justice. On 10th June I saw in a dream that I was working in my office room in my official residence in Simla, when the door giving on the verandah opened suddenly and my brother-in-law, Inayatullah, came in with a very broad smile on his face. The dream was so vivid and left such a deep impress on my mind that I hurried through my preparation in the morning in anticipation of meeting him at breakfast. It was only when I was ready that I realised that I had seen him in my dream and that he had not arrived in person. Two days later I met my friend Inamullah in a dream. I was struck by the sequence and had a feeling that the two dreams were harbingers of something good. On 14th June, I met a namesake of mine, Zafarullah, in my dream. Now I was certain that some change was pending and my mind was being prepared to accept it and welcome it as a Divine bounty and a means of success, inasmuch as Inayatullah means Divine favour, Inamullah means Divine bounty, and Zafarullah means success or victory bestowed by Allah. On Sunday, 15th June, Shaikh Ijaz Ahmad and Chaudhri Bashir Ahmad arrived from Delhi for their ten days’ summer recess. I told them that some significant change in my public career was approach ing. They asked me whether I had seen a dream. I related my three dreams to them. Monday was my day of weekly interview with the