Tadhkirah — Page 794
794 November 1905 The Promised Messiah [as] said: A few days ago I saw Maulav i ‘Abdul-Kar i m in my dream. We talked about different matters and then I recalled that he had died and I thought I would request him for prayer and said: Will you pray that I might be given enough respite which will afford me time for the full development of the Community. In answer he merely said: Ta hsi ld a r. I said to him: This is irrelevant. Please pray for the matter concerning which I have requested you. Then he raised his hands for supplication, up to his chest, but no higher and said: Twenty one. I asked him to explain, but he gave no explanation. Only he kept repeating ‘Twenty one’, 975 and then left. [Arabic] [Gather together all the Muslims on the face of the earth so that they should unite in one faith]. 975 Note by Hadrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad ra : Repetition of the word ‘Twenty one’ by Maulav i Sahib indicates that the word has a special relevance to the life of the Promised Messiah as , because the question that had been put to Maulav i Sahib ra was that sufficient time span be granted to complete the propagation of the Community. In response Maulav i Sahib uttered the word: twenty one—indicating the time allotted for such propagation is twenty one years. The subsequent events provide a strong testimony to the truthfulness of this dream, because the Promised Messiah as issued the Announcement for bai‘at in Jam a d i ’ul-Awwal 1306. During the twenty first year thereafter, he passed away in the same month. Similarly, the Announcement for bai‘at was issued in 1888 (AD) and he passed away in 1908. This clarifies the interpretation of this dream that he was destined to pass away in the twenty first year. [Tash- hi dh-ul-Adh-h a n, vol. 3, no. 6–7, June–July 1908, pp. 8–9, written by Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II ra ] Note by Maul ana Abdul Latif Bahawalpuri: Since Hadrat Am ir -ul Mu’min i n Khalifatul Masih II ra was a reflection and second coming of the Promised Messiah as , he also experienced a similar dream and