Some thirty years ago, I saw in a dream once that there was a raised platform which looked like a shop; perhaps it had a roof too. An extremely handsome boy aged about seven was sitting there. It occurred to me that he was an angel. I do not remember whether he called me or whether I went up to him on my own, but when I stood close to the platform he handed over to me a refined and shining loaf of bread that was very large as if equal to the size of four [regular] loaves, and said, ‘Take this loaf, it is for you and for the dervishes [mendicants] who are with you.’ Thus ten years later, this dream was fulfilled. If someone with an unbiased heart were to come and stay in Qadian, he would find that twice a day we receive from the unseen the same bread the angel had given. Many a person with family is fed here twice a day. Many of the blind, crippled, and indigent carry their meals twice daily from the Langar Khanah [Community Kitchen]. Guests converge here from all over. The average number of those who eat twice a day here at this Langar is 200, and, at times, 300; sometimes even more.
This does not include the cost of the other requirements of hospitality. Despite exercising extreme frugality, the average monthly cost is Rupees 1500 and this is in addition to other expenses. I have been witnessing this divine miracle for twenty years; namely, that we are supplied with this bread out of the unseen. We do not know where it will come from the next day, but nevertheless it does come.
The disciples of Hadrat ‘Isa had prayed to God to grant them their daily bread, but the Benevolent God has been bestowing our daily bread upon us even without our asking. Just as the angel had announced, ‘This bread is for you and for the dervishes who are with you’, so does God Himself send this feast for me and my dervishes daily. Thus, every day a new feast from Him is a new Sign for us.