Tadhkirah — Page 544
544 I have only seen the number eleven. [al- H akam, vol. 4, no. 45, December 17, 1900, p. 2] (C) Then, I received the Revelation: [Urdu] There are our pure members in Lahore. They should be informed. They are made of fine clay. Doubt will be removed but the clay will remain. In the context of the acceptance of him whether he could make some arrangement for transportation and security. He told me that he would make some arrangement the same day on his return to Lahore. Accordingly, he procured the car of Navv a b Muhammad D i n and the jeep of Mirz a Man su r Ahmad and the cars of some other friends and started for Qadian. In the meantime, next day we tried to procure some transportation through an Ahmad i friend who had promised that he would arrive in Qadian between 8 and 9 a. m. with a military escort. He did not arrive till 10 a. m. and then it passed through my mind that the phrase ‘eleven’ in the revelation might mean eleven o’clock and that transportation might become available after 11 a. m. Mirza Bashir Ahmad was in charge of all these arrangements and every few minutes I received his message that all arrangements had fallen through and that no effort had been successful. I telephoned to him that in view of the phrase ‘after eleven’ in the revelation I was thinking that some arrangement would go through after 11 a. m. I had originally thought that the phrase had reference to a date but that I was now thinking that it had reference to the hour. At five minutes past eleven I was about to lift the receiver of the telephone to try to find out from Mirz a N as ir Ahmad what the situation was, but before I dialled his number, his call came through that Captain ‘At a ullah had arrived with transportation and we thus travelled from Qadian to Lahore. [Excerpt of Friday Sermon of Ha d rat Khal i fatul Mas i h II ra ; al-Fa d l, vol. 3, no. 174, July 31, 1949, pp. 5–6]