Tadhkirah — Page 543
1900 543 The Promised Messiah [as] said: I do not know what is meant 568 by eleven—eleven days or eleven weeks or what. 568 Note by Hadrat Maul ana Jalal-ud-Din Shams ra : Subsequently, it was made clear to the Promised Messiah as that the revelation refers to B abu Il a h i Bakhsh. He writes: B abu Il a h i Bakhsh died of the plague after the death of eleven beasts as was indicated in the revealed couplet: After eleven. This shows that B a b u [Il a h i Bakhsh] was number twelve and that there are two more after him so that the number fourteen might be completed. [Tatimmah H aq iq atu l -Wa hi , p. 151 footnote, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 22, p. 589 footnote] Since prophecies are multi-faceted and possess diverse points of wisdom, they are fulfilled repeatedly in diverse ways to rejuvenate the faith and add to the knowledge of the believers. Another manifestation of the fulfilment of the prophecy appeared in Khalifatul Masih II ra. In interpreting this revelation as having reference to an incident during the migration from Qadian in 1947, He said in a Friday sermon: When a study of the revelations vouchsafed to the Promised Messiah convinced me that our migration from Qadian had been indicated with certainty and I decided to leave Qadian, a message was sent to Lahore by telephone that some transport might be arranged for, but no reply was received for eight or ten days. Finally, the reply that came was that Government was not able to arrange for any transport, and thus no transport was available. At that time also I was studying the revelations vouchsafed to the Promised Messiah and I found one revelation ‘ ’ [After eleven]. It passed through my mind that possibly it meant that transport would be arranged after the lunar date eleven, but days passed and the solar date 28 arrived and yet no transportation became available. I was pondering over the meaning of the phrase: After eleven; in the revelation of the Promised Messiah, when I received a message from Mirza Bashir Ahmad that Major Bash i r Ahmad, brother of Major- General Nadh i r Ahmad had come to see me. This was a mistake. It was not Major Bash i r Ahmad, but his brother Captain ‘At a ullah. I described the situation to him and asked