The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 253
252 Ā'ĪNA-E-KAMĀLĀT-E-ISLĀM―DĀFI‘UL-WASĀWIS higher knowledge. Among the audience was a maulawi whom I did not know and he did not believe in me. He was sitting among the gathering and did not belong to our Jama'at. I took note of his features. He was slim and white bearded. He interrupted my discourse and said: These are matters relating to the nature of God's Being and any discussion of them is prohibited. I ad- monished him: Foolish one, this has nothing to do with the nature of God's Being. This is holy knowledge concerning Him. I was deeply distressed by his irrelevant interruption and tried to silence him, but he persisted in his mis- chief which made me angry and I said: "The evil-minded divines of this age persist in their mischief, but God will expose them' and added some more phrases of the same type, which I do not now recall. Then I called out: 'Is there anyone who would expel this maulawi from this gathering?' Thereupon, I saw someone who looked like my servant Ḥāmid ‘Ali who seized the maula- wi and pushed him out down the stairs. Then I looked up and saw the Holy Prophet, on whom be the peace and blessings of Allah, standing on a large terrace near our gathering as if he had been strolling there and was quite close when the maulawi was expelled. I had not noticed him before but on looking closely now I saw that he was holding the book A'ina-e-Kamālāt-e-Islām in his hand. At the place that I have mentioned, which appears to have been printed already, he had placed one of his blessed fingers at the spot where his praise was mentioned and his pure, effective, and high teachings were set out, and another finger at the place where the qualities and the truth and loyalty of his Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, were set out. He was smiling and said: Ofis هَذَا لِيْ وَ هَذَا لِأَصْحَابِن Meaning: This is in my praise and this is in praise of my Companions. Then my mind moved from the dream towards ilham [revelation] and a state of vision was created. It was revealed to me in a vision that God Almighty expressed His pleasure over His own praise mentioned at that place and the ilham about it came to me: هذَا الشَّتَاءُ لن [This is My praise. ] This was Tuesday night and the time was 3:15 a. m.