Tadhkirah — Page 460
460 afterwards I myself may not be able to tell you. The world appeared to be a strange place at that time, which I cannot express in words…He said that as the words continued to descend I kept uttering them and when this process [of descent] ended I also ended my address. He used to say that during the address, there were some times when words were seen by me in written form. [S i ratul- Mahd i , vol. 1, narration no. 623, pp. 592-593] 4. Hadrat Bh a’i ‘Abdur-Ra h m a n Qadiani narrates: Sometimes Hadrat Maulav i Sahib was in need of asking because he may have lagged behind in writing or due to not understanding some word, or regarding the letters in a word; for example, whether it was an al i f or an ‘a i n , or a sa d as opposed to a s i n or perhaps a th a , or perhaps a ta instead of a t a etc. etc. So when he would ask, the condition of Sayyedn a Hadrat Aqdas, the Promised Messiah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, would be quite strange, and H u du r would respond as if someone is speaking having been woken up from sleep or as if responding coming back from another world. And after responding about the word or the letter he would return to his earlier condition and the state of separation from the world was such that people felt that though the physical body of H u du r was here, his divinely lit soul—having reached to the world in the heavens—was speaking by reading or having heard things from there. The motion of the blessed tongue must have been felt by H u du r alone but the feeling was that being out of his control, it moved when it was made to move by someone else. It is difficult to put in words this situation and scene. Separation, state of being cut off from the world, drowsiness, or a condition of being totally absorbed and being separated from oneself, deprived of the senses, and being totally lost and wonderstruck—some such words may fit aptly regarding the condition that prevailed upon H u du r at this time—apart from this, his actual state had undergone such a spiritual transformation that transcends my ability to express in words. Because it appeared that his entire body and its every particle was as if it was under the control of some other power. [S i ratul-Mahd i , vol. 2, p. 369] 5. Respected Syed Mahmood Alam Sahib ra states: Hadrat Maulav i N u r-ud-D i n Sahib used to say that when the Promised Messiah as delivered the ‘ I dul-A dha Sermon in Arabic, and when he was asked afterwards about his condition he said that the angels would bring one slate after another of words written in thick letters which I would look at and read out. One slate would come and when I would finish reading it out then another would come and the first would disappear. Thus, the series of these slates continued. When someone from among the writers would ask a question then the slate that had disappeared would come back, looking at which I would reply. [Register Riw a y a t-e- S a ha bah, narration no. 4, p. 38] 6. Hadrat Miy a ń Muhammad Y a s i n Sahib Ahmadi ra states: The Khutbah Ilhamiyyah was delivered by H u du r on the day if ‘ I dul-A dha. During the