Tadhkirah — Page 586
586 you 629 were advancing towards me to shake my hand. That has now been fulfilled. [al- H akam, vol. 6, no. 37, October 17, 1902 p. 16] (B) I saw in a dream once that I had set out for a walk and under the banyan tree 630 , which is close to the house of Mir a ń Bakhsh barber, Nab i Bakhsh approached me and shook hands with me. This dream was seen in the days when he used to publish statements against me. [al- H akam, vol. 6, no. 38, October 24, 1902, p. 10] 1902 It is the way of God Almighty with me that when a supplication is carried to the extreme, an angel descends and removes the obstruction in the way of its acceptance. Immediately, thereupon, divine mercy begins to manifest itself, the signs of which begin to appear before morning. [Letter August 16, 1902, addressed to Seth ‘Abdur-Ra h m a n of Madras, Tash hi dhul Adhh a n, September 1907, nos. 31–32 / 293–294] 631 1902 It has been conveyed to me that the meaning of the saying in the a ha d i th that the ages of people in the time of the 629 The reference is to Mehar Nab i Baksh who had, at one time, faltered in his belief, but was able to repent afterwards. He wrote a letter to the Promised Messiah as renewing his bai‘at. In response, the Promised Messiah as wrote this. [Jalal-ud-Din Shams] 630 This banyan tree was located between the houses of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra and Ha d rat Kh a n Bah a dur Mirz a Sul ta n Ahmad ra. [Jalal-ud-Din Shams] 631 The first set of numbers pertains to the page numbers for that month and the second set of numbers pertains to page numbers for that year. [Publishers]