My Mother — Page 145
Farewell 145 side was occupied by his sister-in-law and the other by Abdus Sattar Afghan!’ Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih pointed out that the reference in her dream was to her house in Paradise. When she related this to me she said, ‘I know well the reference is to my house in Paradise. I mentioned the position of my grave only to amuse Hazrat Sahib. ’ She was now seventy-five and suffered from high blood pres- sure from time to time. Yet she carried on normally. She attended the Friday Noon Prayer Service, paid her respects to Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih and had her daily meeting with Hazrat Ummul Momineen. The weather was hot and she went everywhere on foot. She learnt that Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih intended to leave for Sind on the 25th (Monday) and was concerned, but was reas- sured when it was confirmed that he would not depart till the 27th (Wednesday). She said to me very cheerfully, ‘Have you heard, Hazrat Sahib is leaving on the 27th!’ I rejoined, ‘So I understand. ’ She repeated with a slight emphasis, ‘Twenty-Seventh. ’ I said, ‘I realise. ’ What she meant was that the twenty-seventh would be the last Wednesday in April and if her dream specifying the date of her death was to be literally fulfilled this year, Hazrat Sahib would depart from Qadian after leading her funeral service. Early on the morning of the 27th she visited the Bahishti Maqbarah. She men- tioned to me that she felt her inner temperature had risen, but made no specific complaint about her health. About that time she mentioned to me that several times in a state of half slumber she had heard one person say to another, ‘Something is impending’; and the other responding, ‘This time it will surely happen. ’ On the