Tadhkirah — Page xii
XII is experienced in a state of wakefulness in which the recipient's faculties are withdrawn from any other experience and are concentrated on the subject matter of the vision. True dreams are a common experience and that a person may have a true dream or dreams is not an indication of his righteousness or sanctity. Such an experience is merely proof that all human beings possess the faculty of experiencing a true dream and that, therefore, one should not reject the notion of higher forms of revelation out of hand. In this volume will be discovered a variety of experiences of all forms of revelation. Some of the verbal revelations are a repetition of verses of the Holy Quran. Their purpose is to emphasise some aspects of the connotation of the verses and their applicability to a particular set of circumstances. The revelation of a Quranic verse does not import any addition to the Holy Quran. Some of the revelations were repeated many times. This was not at the choice of the recipient. Each time the revelation was vouchsafed afresh. This collection of revelations is replete with prophecies many of which have been fulfilled, some of them repeatedly and some await fulfilment. It is hoped that a rendering into English of all this material would be found most helpful by seekers after truth in this age and in succeeding ages who may not have, for lack of knowledge of the original, access to the actual words in which the revelation is expressed. London Zafrullah Khan November 1976