Tadhkirah — Page 349
1894 349 392 At that time I saw [in a vision] that, in the inner courtyard, my wife was suffering greatly from the pangs of childbirth and reached my bed with great effort. (B) Translation: [Arabic] O Messiah who has been sent for human welfare, help us to avert the plague. [Ayy a mu s-S ula h , p. 156, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 14, p. 403] 392 The pain of child-birth took her to the trunk of a date palm. Thereupon, she said: I wish I had died before this. Then Allah safeguarded them from the evil of that day. [Publishers]