Tadhkirah — Page 1047
A PPENDIX 1047 …The Promised Messiah as took hold of Bukh ari and started turning over its pages very rapidly. Then he stopped at one place and said: Here is the reference. Everyone was surprised and someone inquired from him, how he had found the reference so quickly. He answered: When I took the book in my hand and started turning over its pages it appeared to me as if they were blank. I turned them over quickly and then came to a page where I saw some writing and I was sure that that was the reference that I needed. [S i ratul-Mahd i , part 2, Riw a yat no. 306, p. 2–3] 1892 (A) Hadrat Am i rul-Mu’min i n Khalifatul Masih II aba related in a Friday sermon: During the reign of Queen Victoria, God Almighty informed the Promised Messiah as : [Persian] [ The British Empire will last for eight years; thereafter there will be weakness, distur- bance and decline. ] These eight years ended with the death of Queen Victoria. 1243 [al-Fa d l, vol. 16, no. 78, April 5, 1929, p. 5] (B) Ha fi z Ha mid ‘Al i narrated to me 1244 …that Hadrat Sahib [ the Promised Messiah] received the revelation: 1243 Queen Victoria died on January 22, 1901. [Jalal-ud-Din Shams] 1244 Refers to Ha j i ‘Abdul-Maj i d. [Munawar Ahmed Saeed]