The Heavenly Sign — Page 44
44 Nishan-e-Āsmānī that time there was no sign of a river there, so we did not believe him, but, sometime later a canal was dug and it ran through the very spot which he had marked. Once he saw some men who were sinking a well and it was almost complete. He said to them, 'You are wasting your time, this well shall never be completed. ' This seemed so illogical since the well was all but finished, but at that very instant the well collapsed and disappeared leaving no trace. Once he told a man, 'Alī Bakhsh by name, who was sitting on the roof, to leave that place and come over to the other side. But 'Alī Bakhsh was reluctant to do so. At last Gulāb Shāh made him get up. No sooner had 'Alī Bakhsh left that place than the roof collapsed. Once he asked me whether my father had a broken tooth. I replied that he had. He said, 'He has entered Paradise. ' My father had died a long time ago, before Gulāb Shāh had even come to live in our village, so he could not have known that my father had a broken tooth. He must have learnt about this through a vision and he gave me the glad tidings that my father had entered Paradise. It must also be mentioned that Gulab Shāh was a man of God, and a pious Muwahhid. Being in the state of spiritual ecstasy, a fountain of Tauhid flowed from his lips. From him I learnt the ways of Islam and manners of practising Tauhid. I remembered Allah in the manner that he taught me till my heart underwent a metamorphosis and I began