Tadhkirah — Page 197
1888 197 February 14, 1888 On the night between February 13 and 14, I saw two frightening dreams about you, which portended a great grief and sorrow. I was much worried and uncertain as to the import of the dreams and a revelation came in a light slumber which has totally escaped my memory. Then, yesterday your letter arrived containing the grievous news of the death of Sunderd a s. [To Allah we belong and to Him shall we return. ] It seems that this was the sorrow to which the dream was related. [Makt u b a t-e-Ahmadiyyah, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 72–73, Letter dated February 15, 1888, addressed to Chaudhary Rustam ‘Al i ] About 1888 On one occasion I travelled from Ludhiana to Patiala. Before I set out I received the revelation: [Urdu] Some loss will be incurred in the course of this journey and some worry and suffering will be encountered. I informed my companions of this. Before we set out from Patiala for the return journey, it was time for ‘A s r Prayer and in order to make my ablutions I took off my cloak and handed it to a servant of Sayyed Muhammad H asan Kh a n, a minister of the State of Patiala. Thereafter, when the time came to purchase our tickets, I put my hand in my pocket and discovered that the handkerchief in which the money had been folded had fallen out of my pocket. Then I remembered the revelation that this loss had to be suffered. After we boarded the train and arrived at the [railway] station of Doraha, a European traveller deliberately misinformed one of my companions that the train had