The Shining Lamp — Page 144
144 THE SHINING LAMP At that time, he appeared to me like a small child. Then I said to him: 'If you would agree, I wish you to overlook what- ever I have said concerning you, which might have hurt you, but remember that whatever I have said was not but out of goodwill. I fear Allah and that calamitous day when we shall all be standing before Him. He said: 'I overlook all those things. Then I said to him: 'Bear witness that I have forgiven you all that you have said concerning me and declaring me a disbeliever and your charging me with falsehood. After this, he appeared to me at his full size, and I saw him clad in white. Then I said: 'It has all come about as I had seen in my dream. Then a caller called out that a person of the name of Sultan Baig was at his last breath, whereupon I said: 'He will soon die, for I had been shown in my dream that we shall reconcile on the day of that man's death. Then I said to Muhammad Husain that I had seen in a dream that you and I would reconcile on the day of the death of Baha'- ud-Din. Upon hearing this, Muhammad Husain looked at me with great adoration and marvelled as one would be marvelled by the majesty of a true incident and said that it is absolutely true and that Baha'-ud-Din has indeed died. Then I invited him to a meal, and after a little hesitation, he accepted. I said to him that I had also seen in my dream that we would reconcile with each other without the intervention of a third party, and it had come about as I had seen. This was Wednesday, 12 December 1894.