Tadhkirah — Page 12
12 had been Reader to the Deputy Commissioner at Sialkot and in those days he was often engaged in religious discussions with me. He was by nature hostile towards Islam. It so happened that my elder brother, who had appeared in the competitive examination for the post of ta h s i ld ar 16 and had been successful, was staying in Qadian at his home awaiting his assignment to a post. One day, at the time of ‘A s r , I was occupied with reading the Holy Qur’an in the upper chambers of the house. At the end of one page, as I was about to turn over to the next, I suddenly experienced a state of vision. I saw Sehaj R a m dressed in black and standing before me in the attitude of great humility and supplication as if trying to persuade me to intercede for him that he might be shown mercy. I said to him: ‘There is no time left for mercy;’ and simultaneously I was made to understand by Allah the Almighty that Sehaj R a m had expired at that moment. But no information had yet been conveyed about it. Thereafter, I descended from my room and found that my brother was sitting in the company of six or seven people and that their conversation related to the matter of my brother’s assignment to a post. I said: ‘Should Pandit Sehaj R a m die, his post would also be suitable. ’ Those present laughed at me for having suddenly announced the death of a person who was hale and hearty. On the second or third day, the news arrived that Sehaj R a m had died suddenly at that very hour. [ H aq i qatul-Wa hi, p. 296, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 22, p. 309] 1868 or 1869 (A) A wonderful revelation was vouchsafed to me in Urdu in 1868 or 1869…. It happened in this way: Maulav i Ab u 16 A sub-collector of revenues. [Publishers]