My Mother — Page 52
52 directions of an informal character, one of which was that in the event of his demise, Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih—who was then in Dalhousie—may be requested to lead his funeral prayers. Thereafter, he expressed no concern about anything. His condition continued to improve, he was able to take his meals and to get up and walk. One day I mentioned to him that I had received a letter from Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih in which he had urged me to visit him in Dalhousie, as I had never visited Dalhousie; whereupon, he observed quite eagerly, ‘That would be nice. We shall all go to Dalhousie. ’ remarked, ‘What about your health!’ He said, ‘Allah may grant me health; who knows?’ Towards the end of the month he began to feel pressure on his lung. His regular physician had had to go out of Lahore, and had committed him to the care of an equally competent colleague, who advised that water had again accumulated at the base of the lung and should be extracted. My father was somewhat reluctant, but agreed at the suggestion of and myself. The next day, Sunday 29th August, the physician brought an assistant with him and they extracted the water. had withdrawn to a neighbouring room where she was occupied with supplication. When the operation was finished, she was informed. She returned and observed the backs of the physicians who were departing through the anteroom. She was disturbed and exclaimed, ‘May Allah send us good’, and reminded me of a dream that she had related to me a few days earlier in which she had seen two men in European dress departing through the anteroom. Their backs had looked exactly like the backs of the