Tadhkirah — Page 356
356 [Persian] [ And what we do is like a blooming flower and our remembrance envisions all the details of repudiation of the false deities, and it is shaped like this. ] I illustrated this by opening my hand wide like a blooming flower and said: [Persian] [ Look, the credo: -‘There is no God except Allah’; is like this. This negates everything in detail. ] When I said that, he experienced a great pleasure as if he had learned a new and splendid point of view. I noticed his pleasure from the expression on his face. He presented me with a rupee. I thought to myself: I had at one time given him two rupees out of which he has presented me with one. Then while still standing in the lane to the north of our house he asked me: When will you go to Gurdaspur? I answered him: [Persian] [ I do not know, not a step can be firmly taken unless God so wills. ] Then I left him standing in the lane. . I wrote down these few lines immediately thereafter at 2 a. m. [Register of Miscellaneous Memoranda [from the Promised Messiah as ], p. 205] March 22, 1896 Today, March 22, 1896, I received the revelation: