Tadhkirah — Page 1117
A PPENDIX 1117 and the Promised Messiah as treated him for two months and then… told my brother Ha mid ‘Al i to take him back to his village, as his survival was unlikely. …A man was sent to the village to bring a palanquin for him. The man had barely reached Rajawah 1320 when the Promised Messiah as received the Revelation: [Urdu] Barkat ‘Al i will regain his health. The Promised Messiah as sent for Ha mid ‘Al i immediately and told him to revoke the message [for the palanquin]…. The man who had been sent was called back and the next day Barkat ‘Al i ’s fever subsided. [Register Riw a y a t-e- S a ha bah, vol. 11, p. 65, Riw a yat Sheikh Zain-ul-‘ A bid i n] (79) Sheikh Zain-ul-‘ A bid i n narrates that: My brother Mehr ‘Al i 1321 was very ill and was brought here 1322 and the Promised Messiah as treated him for a month and a half. There was some improvement in his dysentery, but the Promised Messiah as received the revelation that the child will not survive. . . . However, keep in mind that he will not die in bed, but while moving about. The day of his death he went into bazaar and drank a seer [a weight of about two pounds] of milk and came home around evening time. . . His mother embraced him and he died in her embrace while he was standing. The Promised Messiah as led his funeral prayer and he was buried here. [Register Riw a y a t-e- S a ha bah, vol. 11, pp. 66–67] 1320 A village near Qadian. [Jalal-ud-Din Shams] 1321 Note by Hadrat Maul ana Jalal-ud-Din Shams ra : The reference is to the brother of Sheikh Zain-ul-‘ A bid i n who had been suffering from dysentery for about six months. 1322 i. e. , to Qadian [Jalal-ud-Din Shams]