Tadhkirah — Page 166
166 (B) Fourteen years ago I had seen in a dream that I would have four sons and that the ‘ aq iq ah of the fourth would be performed on a Monday. [Letter dated June 26, 1899 addressed to Dr. Khal if ah Rash i d-ud-D i n] 1885 Miy a ń ‘Abdull a h of Sannour, who is a patw ari [A village registrar of land] in Patiala State, was pursuing a matter very diligently and had hope of achieving it. He requested me to supplicate for him in that behalf. When I prayed, I instantly received the revelation: 191 I told him that the object he was pursuing would never be achieved and informed him of the words of the revelation. It so happened that certain difficulties arose and the object, though within reach, could not be achieved. [Nuz u lul-Mas ih , p. 234, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 18, p. 612] November 28, 1885 On the night of the November 28, 1885, that is the night before November 28, there was such a display of meteors in the sky the like of which I had not witnessed in my whole life before and so many thousands of flames were traversing the atmosphere in the skies that there is no other spectacle in the world which I can cite to describe it. I recall that at that time the following revelation was vouchsafed to me repeatedly: [Arabic] It was not you who let loose but it was Allah Who let loose. 192 191 [Persian] How many a desire terminates in dust. [Publishers]