Tadhkirah — Page 162
162 vision that I had written certain divine decrees with my own hand setting out events in the future and then got up and examined the whole chamber but did not find any red stain anywhere else. I was very puzzled, and resumed massaging his feet. The Promised Messiah as continued lying down with his face covered with his forearm. In a short while he sat up and then went to the mosque and sat there. My humble self continued massaging his back. It was then that I asked him: ‘ H u du r, where did these red drops fall from?’ At first, he put me off; but on my persisting he related the whole incident as he has set out in detail in his books. Before describing the incident, he expounded to me in detail the matter of beholding God Almighty and the external materialization of elements observed in a vision. He drew upon the experiences of Ha d rat Mo h y-ud-d i n Ibn-e- ‘Arab i to make me fully comprehend how perfect individuals are vouchsafed the experience of the personification of divine attributes of Beauty and Majesty. Then the Promised Messiah as asked me: ‘Did any drop fall on your clothes?’ I looked at my clothes and answered: ‘There is no drop on me. ’ He asked me to look at my cap (which was of white muslin. ) I took off my cap and looked at it and saw that there was a drop on it also. I felt very happy that a drop of the divine ink had fallen on me too. I begged the Promised Messiah as persistently to bestow upon me the shirt on which the red drops had fallen. . He agreed on the condition that I should give a direction in my will that on my death it should be buried along with me. His hesitation in bestowing it upon me was due to his apprehension that after the death of both of us, people might convert it into an object of worship; and he gave it to me after a good deal of discussion between us. It is still with me and bears the red stains exactly as they were then. This is my true eye-witness testimony ! Suffice to say that if I have lied, may I be subject to the warning of: [Curse of Allah be upon the liars. ] Taking Allah as Ever-Present, All-Seeing, I declare on oath in the name of Allah that whatever I have stated is the truth in its entirety. If I have forged a lie I call down upon myself the curse! curse!! curse!!! and wrath! wrath!! wrath!!! of Allah. Humbly, ‘Abdull a h of Sannour.