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Miscellaneous Signs A revelation: پہلے بنگالہ کی نسبت جو کچھ حکم جاری کیا گیا تھا اب اُنکی دلجوئی ہو گی 78 215 [Tadhkirah, p. 508] During the reign of Queen Victoria, God Almighty disclosed to me the news: سلطنت برطانیه تا هشت سال بعد ازاں ضعف و فساد و اختلال 79 [Tadhkirah, p. 650] God, the Lord of glory, be thanked a thousand times, for He demonstrated these signs in my support merely out of His grace and kindness. I did not have the power even to produce a particle of evidence in my support, either from earth or from heaven, but He, Who is the Lord of heaven and earth and the yoke of Whose obe- dience is borne by every particle of this universe, caused a river of signs to flow in my support. He dem- onstrated such support for me as I could not even imagine. For my part, I testify that I was not worthy of such honour. Yet the God of Glory and Majesty mani- fested these miracles for my sake, purely and solely out of His limitless mercy. I regret that I could not achieve the level of obedience and piety in His way which was my heart's desire, and I could not serve His faith as much as I would have liked to. I will carry with me the anguish that I could not do what I should have done. Yet God, the Gracious, showed such wonders of 78 They will now be consoled with regard to the earlier order concerning Bengal. [Publisher] 79 The British Empire will last for eight years; Thereafter there will be weakness, disturbance and decline. [Publisher]