Tadhkirah — Page 7
E ARLY Y EARS – 1881 7 fear of my life, as the impression on my mind was that I was about to die. 7 [ A ’ i na-e-Kam a l a t-e-Isl a m, p. 548, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 5, p. 548] About 1861 I remember that about thirty-four or so years ago, I saw in my dream that the ugly and dark figure of Satan was standing somewhere. First, he turned to me and I slapped him on the face and said: ‘Avaunt Satan, you have no part in me. ’ Then he turned to someone else and took him along. I knew that person. Then I woke up. On the same day, or shortly thereafter, the person whom I had seen in my dream that Satan had taken away, had an attack of epilepsy and became one of its victims. This led me to conclude that the interpretation of the companionship of Satan was epilepsy. [Mi‘y a rul-Madh a hib, p. 25 footnote, attached to N u rul-Qur’ a n, printed in April 1896, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 9, p. 483 footnote] 1862 On one occasion, having been apprised in my dream that Raja Tej a Singh, who had been awarded several villages in 7 From the words: ‘my time has come,’ the Promised Messiah as understood that he was about to die. However, as subsequent events showed, it meant that the time of his being commissioned as reformer was imminent. This interpretation is also supported by another of his revelations: [Persian] Tread joyfully that your time has arrived. Allah knows best. [Mirza Bashir Ahmad]