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176 Essence of Islam-V very well. They also knew that there was nothing I could place my hopes on. They were personally aware of the state of my affairs and can testify to them. Since they had full knowledge of my difficulty as well as of the paucity of means to resolve it, the de- sire surged in my heart that I should pray to God, the One and Only, so that He may resolve my difficulty, and so that, through the acceptance of my prayer I may not only overcome my own difficulty, but may also furnish a proof of Divine support to my oppo- nents a sign to which people should bear witness. The same day I prayed that, as a sign from Him, God should inform me of the coming of financial assis- tance. Thereafter I received the revelation: اس دن کے بعد میں موج دکھاتا ہوں اَلَّا إِنَّ نَصْرَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ فِي شَائِلٍ مِّقْيَاسٍ Then will you go to Amritsar. " This means that the money will arrive after ten days, and that God's succour is as close as the birth of the foal when a she-camel raises her tail to give birth, and that after the money arrives I will have to go to Am- ritsar, as was revealed in English. All this was fulfilled in the presence of Hindus (the Aryas afore- mentioned), exactly as it had been foretold. I did not receive a penny for ten days, and then, on the elev- enth day, I received 110 rupees from Muhammad Afdal Khan, Superintendent, of Settlement, Rawal- pindi, as well as twenty rupees from some other source, and thereafter money began to come in quite unexpectedly. On the same day, when the money had come from Muhammad Afdal Khan and others, I had