Tadhkirah — Page 1040
1040 1884 Hadrat Umm-ul-Mu’min i n ra said: Before my marriage, the Promised Messiah as had been conveyed that his second marriage would be with someone from Delhi. [S i ratul-Mahd i , part 1, Riw a yat no. 69, second edition, p. 57] 1884 Ha fi z Ha mid ‘Al i (deceased), who used to attend upon the Promised Messiah, as relates that when the Promised Messiah as married the second time he felt great weakness in himself as he had led a celibate life for a number of years and had adopted a course of physical discipline. Then he used the prescription which was revealed to him and which is known by the title Zad J a m-e-‘Ishq, 1234 and it proved very blissful. … There are two reports about its being revealed. First, that the prescription itself is revealed; and second, that someone told the Promised Messiah as about this prescription and then he was commanded by revelation to use it. [Allah knows best]. [S i ratul-Mahd i , part 3, no. 569, p. 50–51, 2nd ed] 1884 Hadrat Umm-ul-Mu’min i n ra relates: 1234 The following is the formula for Zad J a m-e-‘Ishq —an abbreviation in which each letter represents the first letter of an ingredient: z a ‘afr a n [saffron], d ar c h ini [cinnamon bark], j a ’ifal [nutmeg], afy u n [opium], mushk [musk], ‘aqriqar ha [pyrethrum], shingraf [cinnabar], Qaranfal [clove]. These ingredients are taken in equal weight, ground, and made into pills, which are then coated with Roghan-e-Sammul-F a r [Arsenic dispersed in Cow butter] and taken once a day. [S i ratul-Mahd i , part 3, second edition, p. 51, Riw a yat no. 569]