Tadhkirah — Page 259
1892 259 This morning before dawn at 4:30 a. m. I saw a large house where my wife (Ma h m u d’s mother) and another woman were sitting. I filled a white water-skin with water and carried it into the house and poured the water into an earthen vessel of mine. When I had finished pouring the water, the other woman suddenly came over to me wearing a beautiful red dress. I saw that she was a young woman and was clad in red from top to toe. Perhaps it was netting material. I thought to myself that this was the woman about whom I had published the announcement, but she appeared to me to have the features of my wife. It seemed that she said or thought: ‘I have arrived. ’ I responded: ‘O Allah, may she come. ’ Then she embraced me and thereupon I woke up. [Allah be praised for all this. ] Two to four days before I had seen in a dream that [a woman of the name] Raushan B ibi [Lady of light] had come and was standing outside the door of my verandah and I was sitting inside. I said to her: ‘Come, Raushan Bibi, do come in. ’ [Register of Miscellaneous Memoranda by the Promised Messiah as , p. 33] August 1892 Three or four days ago I had seen a frightening 297 dream the interpretation of which was that an enemy had attacked 297 Note by Hadrat Maul ana Jalal-ud-Din Shams ra : This frightening dream was concerning Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra and the reference to a friend is also about him. In the same letter the Promised Messiah as writes: Upon receiving your loving letter in yesterday’s mail, being human, I was overcome by concern. But soon my mind was cleared. This is a trial from Allah, the All-Wise and Noble. If Allah the All-Powerful so wills, there is no need to be fearful…. I do not know what provocation has led to such a flagrant directive. How unfortunate is the state from