Once I was sitting upstairs in my room, which is attached to the smaller mosque, and has been named Baitul-Fikr [the Meditation Room] by God Almighty. An attendant of mine named Hamid ‘Ali was with me kneading my feet when I received the revelation:
Meaning that, you shall see a painful thigh. I said to Hamid ‘Ali, ‘I have received this revelation just now.’ He replied to me, ‘There is a small pustule on your hand, perhaps it refers to this.’ I said to him, ‘There is a world of difference between a hand and a thigh. This interpretation is irrelevant and unreasonable. And the pustule is not even painful. Also, the revelation means, “You shall see” and not “You are seeing it now.” ’ After this we both went downstairs to go to the large mosque to offer Prayer. As we descended, I noticed two horsemen approaching me. They were riding two horses without the saddles. Both of them were less than twenty years old. On seeing me, they stopped. One of them said, ‘My brother who is riding the other horse is very sick due to pain in the thigh and is incapacitated. We have come here so that you may prescribe some medicine for him.’ At this, addressing Hamid ‘Ali, I said, ‘Allah be praised that my revelation has been fulfilled so quickly that it took only as little time as it took us to go downstairs.’
Sheikh Hamid ‘Ali is still alive. He is a resident of the village Theh Ghulam Nabi and is with me these days. Nobody can sacrifice his faith for the sake of another person. In particular, if a relationship of spiritual allegiance exists, and someone were to say to his follower, ‘I have concocted a false miracle in my support. You should bear witness to it in my favour.’ The follower in his heart of hearts would certainly say, ‘He is a deceitful and evil man; it was wrong on my part to pledge allegiance to him.’ Similarly, thousands of my disciples are witnesses to the truth of all of my prophecies that I have recorded in this book.
An ignoramus might object that the testimony of a disciple is not reliable. I say that no testimony is quite like this testimony, for such a relationship is exclusively for the sake of faith. One chooses to be a disciple of him alone, who, in his mind, is the most pious natured, righteous, and truthful in the entire world. If the spiritual mentor is such that he concocts hundreds of false prophecies, and beseeches his disciples to lie for his sake and to project him as a saint in one way or another by telling lies, then how can the disciples say that he is a righteous man and how can they serve him with heart and soul? Rather, they will call him a satan and become estranged from him. For my part, I curse any such disciple who ascribes false miracles to me, and similarly accursed is any such mentor who concocts false miracles.