Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 224
224 BARĀHIN-E-AHMADIYYA PART THREE For instance, on the first or second of Muharram, 1299 AH,¹ I saw in a dream that someone had sent me fifty rupees towards the cost of my book. An Aryah² also saw a dream that someone had sent me a thousand rupees for the same purpose. He related his dream to me and I immediately told him of my dream and said to him: 'Nineteen- twentieths of your dream is false; this is a consequence of your being a Hindu and outside the pale of Islam. He might have taken it ill, but it was the truth and this was confirmed on the fifth or sixth of Muharram, when the sum of fifty rupees, which had been remitted by Sheikh Muhammad Baha'-ud-Din, Chief Minister of Junagadh State, was received as assistance towards the cost of the book, in the presence of several people, one of whom was an Aryah. وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ عَلَى ذَلِكَ ]And all praise belongs to Allah for this]. At another time, God informed me about the death of a raja, which I communicated to a Hindu who is now a pleader by profession. When the prophecy was fulfilled later the same day, the Hindu was greatly astonished as to how I could have acquired such clear and manifest knowledge of an unseen event. On another occasion, the same lawyer appeared for his law exam- inations, and several other candidates from that district [Sialkot] appeared with him in the same year. At that time also, I saw a dream on the basis of which I informed around thirty or forty Hindus, including revenue collectors, record keepers, and clerks, not to mention the law- yer himself, that only he would pass the examination and all the other candidates would fail. This is exactly what happened, and I received this news in 1868, in Qadian, through the letter of the lawyer. وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ على ذلك And all praise belongs to Allah for this[. Here it should also be borne in mind that just as the dreams of our opponents regarding worldly matters turn out to be predomi- nantly worthless and baseless lies, so is the case with their dreams that 1. Corresponds to November 23 or 24, 1881 CE [Publisher] 2. Lālah Sharampat [Publisher]