A person of the name of Sehaj Ram was the Reader in the Court of the Commissioner at Amritsar. Prior to that, he had been the Reader to the Deputy Commissioner at Sialkot. He was often engaged in religious discussions with me. By his very nature, he carried a grudge against Islam. It so happened that my elder brother, who had appeared in the competitive examination for the post of Tehsildar and had been successful, was still at home in Qadian awaiting his assignment to a post.
One day, at the time of ‘Asr [the afternoon Prayer] I was occupied with reading the Holy Quran in the upper chambers of the house. As I was about to turn over to the next page, in that very condition I experienced a state of vision. I saw Sehaj Ram dressed in black and standing before me in a tone of great humility and supplication as if trying to persuade me to intercede for him that he might be shown mercy. I said to him, ‘Now there is no time for mercy’; and simultaneously, Allah the Almighty made me understand that Sehaj Ram had expired at that very moment, but no information had yet been conveyed about it. Thereafter, I descended from my room and found that my brother was sitting in the company of six or seven people and their conversation related to the matter of my brother’s assignment to a post. I said, ‘Should Pundit Sehaj Ram die, that post is also good.’ Those present burst out in laughter upon hearing my statement and said, ‘Why do you wish the death of a person who is hale and hearty?’ On the second or third day, the news arrived that Sehaj Ram had died suddenly at that very hour.