I had a case pending in a court at Tehsil Batala, District Gurdaspur, against some hereditary tenants. I was told in a dream that in this suit the court will decree [in our favour]. I related this dream to a number of people. Among them was a Hindu gentleman named Sharampat who used to visit me and is still alive. To him, too, I had communicated this prophecy that we would win this suit.
Later, it so happened that no one attended the court on our behalf on the day when the final judgment was to be delivered. But the respondents, some fifteen or sixteen persons, did attend. In the afternoon, they all came back and announced in the marketplace that the case had been dismissed. Soon after, the same person came rushing to me in the mosque and sarcastically declared, ‘Sir! Your suit has been dismissed.’ I asked, ‘Who told you?’ He said that all the respondents had returned and were announcing it in the marketplace.
I was surprised at this, for those who had brought this news were not less than fifteen in number; some of them were Muslims and some Hindus. The shock and grief I felt at this is simply indescribable. After saying this, the Hindu gentleman gleefully left for the marketplace, happy in the thought that he had been given occasion to malign Islam. For my part, the way I suffered is beyond description. It was the time for ‘Asr prayer and I retired to a corner in the mosque deeply anguished at the thought that this Hindu would always taunt how confidently I had made the prophecy about the decree which turned out to be false. Immediately then a voice spoke from the unseen. It was so loud that I thought somebody had called me from outside. The wording of the voice was:
The suit has been decreed; are you a Muslim!
Meaning that, do you not believe? At this I got up and looked around in the mosque, but found no one. This convinced me that the voice I had heard was that of an angel. I immediately summoned the Hindu gentleman back and told him about the voice of the angel. But he did not believe it. The next morning, I personally went to the Tehsil office at Batala. The Tehsildar [Revenue Officer] was a gentleman named Hafiz Hidayat Ali. He had not yet arrived at the court, but his clerk Mathra Das, a Hindu gentleman, was there. I enquired from him if my case had been dismissed? He replied, ‘No! Instead, a decree has been issued [in your favour].’
I told him that the respondents had announced in Qadian that the case had been dismissed. He replied, ‘In a sense they, too, have spoken the truth. The fact is that when the Tehsildar was writing the judgment, I had left the court to attend to an urgency. The Tehsildar had just taken over. He did not know anything about the history of the case. The respondents produced a verdict before him that the hereditary tenants were allowed to cut down trees from the land they occupied, without the permission of the real owner. The Tehsildar, after looking at the verdict, dismissed the case and permitted them to leave. When I returned, the Tehsildar gave me the verdict to be filed along with the case. After reading it, I submitted to the Tehsildar that he had made a serious mistake, because the grounds on which he had issued this verdict had already been set aside by the Appellate Court, and that the respondents had mischievously deceived him. At that very time, I produced before him the verdict of the Appellate Court, which was part of the file. Thereupon, the Tehsildar tore up his first decision and decreed the suit.’
This is a prophecy to the truth of which a large number of Hindus and many Muslims have witnessed. Among them is the same Mr. Sharampat who had so gleefully brought the news that the suit had been dismissed Allah be praised for all this]. God’s works appear with wonderful manifestation of power. This prophecy earned its distinction by the fact that no one happened to be there on our behalf and the Tehsildar announced a flawed judgement to the respondents. In fact, all this was done by God; without this, the prophecy could never have acquired such special grandeur and distinction.