The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 660
JALSA SALANA QADIAN-PROCEEDINGS AND PERSONAL REFLECTION mourn the martyrdom of Imam Husain, the son of 'Alī]. Then he became an Ārya and savoured their teachings for a few days, but attained no satisfaction. Then he became a Brahmū and adopted their ways but there too he did not find any sat- isfaction. Then he became a Naturalist, but did not find any inner purity or love of God, and attained no enlightenment anywhere. Finally, he met Mirza Ṣāḥib and addressed him with great insolence, but Mirza Ṣāḥib spoke to him with great kindness and courtesy, and demonstrated such excellent moral behav- iour, that he became firmly established upon Islam, started offering the five daily Prayers with regularity, and adopted obe- dience to Allah and His Messenger sas. He is now a zealous fol- lower of Mirza Ṣāḥib. In the evening Mirza Ṣāḥib delivered an excellent speech at the residence of Nawwāb Ṣāḥib' in which he narrated some of his dreams and ilham [revelations]. Some people, in whose presence the ilham were fulfilled, gave their testimony about the truthfulness of those ilham. In the morning after the Fajr Prayer a gentleman narrated the dream of Abdullah Ghaznavi, may Allah shower His mercy on him, when Abdullah Ṣāḥib was residing in the village of Kherdi. Abdullah Sahib said that he saw Muhammad Husain Batālawi wearing a long shirt, and that long shirt became torn into pieces. Abdullah Ṣāḥib had also said that the shirt refers to knowledge. As for being torn into pieces, everyone with some intelligence can understand that it refers to the tearing apart of his reputation as a scholar, which is taking place these days, and we do not know how far that will continue. Whoever torments 659 1. The reference is to Nawwāb of Malerkotla who attended the Jalsa along with some of his friends.