Tadhkirah — Page 47
E ARLY Y EARS – 1881 47 with me and to two Hindus of Qadian, Sharampat and Mal a w a mal, who used to visit me. Everyone wondered at this revelation since my wife had passed the age of child- bearing twenty years earlier, and I did not have another wife. But Ha fi z N u r Ahmad said: ‘No wonder if God, through His power, should bestow a son. ’ About three years thereafter, I married into a noble family of Delhi and God bestowed upon me that son and three others. [Tiry a qul-Qul u b, p. 34, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 15, pp. 200–201] About 1881 Revelation [Arabic] [Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah, part 4, p. 558 sub-footnote 4, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 1, p. 666 sub-footnote 4] Translation: [Arabic] Be grateful to Me that you have found My Khad i jah. This was the good news, several years in advance, of my marriage into a noble family of Sayyeds of Delhi. … [In the revelation] my wife was named Khad i jah as she is the mother to a blessed progeny, and a blessed progeny has also been promised to me. It was also an indication that she would be of a Sayyed family. [Nuz u lul-Mas ih , pp. 146–147, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 18, pp. 524–525] About 1881 One prophecy, dating about eighteen years back, is the following: Translation: [Arabic] God, Who has bestowed upon you a marital arrangement with a noble family who are Sayyed, is the True God. Also,