Tadhkirah — Page 1081
A PPENDIX 1081 meet him. Instead of the Promised Messiah as some of his companions including Sheikh Ya‘q u b ‘Al i , travelled in it. When they arrived at the canal bridge, they found that some of the opponents from Massanian and Batala were pretending to hold a meeting. They had conspired to waylay the Promised Messiah as at the bridge and throw him into the canal. …. When the chariot approached the bridge it was surrounded by the crowd of opponents. . . and there was a skirmish… but when they discovered that the Promised Messiah as was not in the chariot, they apologised for the assault. [Register Riw a y a t-e- S a ha bah, vol. 10, pp. 280–281] About 1905 Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II ra writes: About five years or more ago the Promised Messiah as published a dream of his in which he had seen that Hadrat Maulav i N u r-ud-D i n had fallen from a horse. This dream was exactly fulfilled on November 18, 1910. 1281 [Tash hi dhul-Adhh a n, vol. 5, no. 11, November 1910, p. 399] 1281 Note by Hadrat Maul ana Jalal-ud-Din Shams ra : Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II ra , during his days as the editor of Tash hi dhul Adhh a n, stated: ‘For a prophecy to be made at a time when not just the Promised Messiah as , but none of the Ahmad i s of Qadian were in possession of a horse; for the Promised Messiah as to pass away without this prophecy being fulfilled; for some person to have given ‘Abdul- H ayy …a horse as a gift, not at a price; for Hadrat Maulav i Sahib to go there in spite of the visit of Navv a b Sahib; for the stirrups to have been shortened and for him to have denied the request to prolong it due to its impact on the children; for the guests to have desired to walk with him and for him to deny it; for the horse to have been scared and sped up, resulting in both of the other partners to fall behind and for him to have fallen exactly on the stony ground; all these events are so unusual that one is left with no choice but to attribute them to the special decree of God, in support of the fulfilment of the prophecy of the Promised Messiah as. [Tash hi dhul-Adhh a n, vol. 5, no. 11, November 1910, p. 404]