The True Nature of the Mahdi — Page 33
33 rock and sometimes a piece of wood. On perceiving it I threw it immediately to the ground, then supplicated for it to be turned into a buffalo. I was completely absorbed in the prayer and when I raised my head I saw that the stone had become a buffalo. First I looked at its eyes which were very large and bright. Seeing that God had turned a stone, which had no eyes, into a handsome buffalo with large and bright eyes—how beautiful and useful an animal it is—I was deeply moved and, recalling the prayer of God, I fell into prostration and glorified God Almighty in a loud voice in the words: ‘My Lord is High, my Lord is High’. My voice was so loud that I felt it must have carried over a long distance. Then, I said to a woman who was standing near me and whose name is Bhano , and it was probably she, who had asked me to make supplication: ‘See how Powerful our God is, Who has made a stone a buffalo and has bestowed eyes on it’. While I said this to her my heart was once again deeply moved by the thought of God’s Power and was again filled with His praise; so, again I fell into prostration. All the time my heart was made to prostrate itself at the Threshold of God Almighty, having been moved at the thought encapsulated in the words: ‘Lord how great is Your Majesty and how wonderful are Your Acts that You have turned a lifeless stone into a buffalo