The Reality of Khilafah — Page 100
SIRRUL-KHILAFAH— 100 law that He creates two people with a common name. As for making someone a namesake of another, it is a Divine secret that serves a purpose that only the hearts of those blessed with true knowledge can understand. I have a friend who is very dear to me and is the most loyal of all my near and dear ones. He is an eminent scholar and a man of great knowledge. He fathoms the subtleties of the Holy Quran and garners a profound understanding of the Faith. His name, like his attributes, is Maulaw i H ak i m N u r-ud-Deen [Light of the Faith]. Allah the Wise, the All-Knowing, caused his young and only son, whose name was Muhammad Ahmad, to die of measles. The father, however, showed great patience and submitted to the will of his Compassionate Lord. On the night of the death, someone saw the child in his dream and he seemed to be saying to him, ‘Grieve not for my passing, for I am going out of necessity and will soon return. ’ This dream indicates that he [N u r-ud-Deen] will be given another son who will have the same qualities as the deceased one. Allah has power over all things, but most are unacquainted with the ways of the Greatest of Creators. There are many similar stories and testimonies in this regard. I have foregone mentioning them all so as not to prolong this discourse, but many of them are recorded in books on the inter- pretation of dreams. Refer to them if you are one of those who harbour doubts. Yet, how can you persist in doubt when there are consistent testimonies for it? In fact, you yourself might have been a witness to such phenomena. If someone saw a dead person in a dream and was told in a revelation that the deceased would return to the world and meet his kinsmen, would this mean that he would actually and physically come back to life, or would it