After this, God Almighty blessed me with another joyous Sign, which is as follows: During those days, I once prayed that God may let me witness a fresh Sign. At that, as has been published in the newspaper Badr of 30 August 1906, I received this revelation:
Some Sign will soon appear.
The indication was that some Sign was destined to appear soon. Accordingly, the (Promised) Sign appeared in the following manner: On a number of occasions, I saw ill-boding dreams which clearly indicated that some calamity is to appear concerning the family of Mir Nasir Nawab, who is my father-in-law.
Thus, once I saw a goat’s leg hanging in the house, portending someone’s death. And once I saw Dr. ‘Abdul-Hakim Khan, Assistant Surgeon, standing outside juxtaposed to the door near the room upstairs in which I live. Then someone, addressing me, says that Ishaq’s mother has invited ‘Abdul-Hakim Khan to come inside the house (Ishaq’s mother is the wife of Mir Nasir Nawab and Ishaq is their son). They all live in our house. On hearing this, I answered, ‘I will never allow ‘Abdul-Hakim Khan to enter my home as it amounts to our insult.’ At this, he disappeared from view and did not enter.
It must be remembered that interpreters of dreams have written in the science of dream interpretation—and it has thus been repeatedly experienced—that if [in a dream] an enemy enters someone’s house, it portends a catastrophe or death in that house. Since ‘Abdul-Hakim Khan is my sworn enemy these days and awaits day and night for my downfall, God Almighty made him appear in the dream as if he wanted to enter our home and Ishaq’s mother, Mir Nasir Nawab’s wife, invites him. The interpretation of such an invitation is stated to be that such a person invites disaster into his house primarily on account of the spiritual lapses on his part, of which God alone has the knowledge; meaning that, his present [spiritual] condition calls for a visitation of some calamity. Obviously man is not free from misdeeds and sins, and human nature, except for a special few, is not immune to mistakes; and the mistake asks for a [heavenly] warning. This experience is shared by the whole world. Hence, the interpretation of this dream was that some mistake on her part sought to invite the enemy into the house, but the intercession stopped it. In the dream I prevented ‘Abdul- Hakim Khan from entering the house; meaning that, the grace of God Almighty which accompanies me prevented the enemy from the occasion to exult.
Thus when, after receiving so many revelations, it became definitely clear to me that some trouble for the family of Mir [Nasir Nawab] was in store, I started supplicating in earnest. It so happened that he, along with his son Ishaq and the rest of the family, was about to leave for Lahore. I related these dreams to him and stopped him from going to Lahore. He said he would not go to Lahore at all without my permission.
Next morning Ishaq, the son of Mir [Nasir Nawab] suffered high fever and became very restless. Tumours appeared in his groin on both sides, and it became certain that it was plague, as plague had broken out in some villages of this district. It was then that I understood that this was the interpretation of the above-mentioned dreams, and profound grief developed in [my] heart. I told the family members of Mir [Nasir Nawab] that I was indeed supplicating, but they must repent and seek [God’s] forgiveness much, because I had seen in the dream that they had invited the enemy to their house, which indicated some wrongdoing on their part. Although I knew that death was the eternal law of nature, yet it occurred to me that if someone died of the plague in my household an uproar of pronouncing me as a liar would develop, and, after that, even if I were to present a thousand Signs, they would be of no avail against this particular objection because I had already written and publicized hundreds of times and told thousands of people that all members of my household would remain safe from death by the plague. In short, I cannot describe the condition of my heart at that time. I immediately engaged myself in supplication. After the supplication, I witnessed a wondrous spectacle of divine providence that, within two to three hours, Ishaq’s fever miraculously subsided and no trace of the tumours was left. He not only sat up, but started moving, walking, playing, and running, as if he had never been ill! This, indeed, is giving life to the dead! I proclaim it on oath, that the raising of the dead by Hadrat ‘Isa was absolutely nothing more than this. People can exaggerate his miracles now as much as they like, but this is what the reality was. He who really dies, passing away from this world and the Angel of Death taking his soul away, does not come back at all. Take note that Allah the Exalted says in the Holy Quran:
1 And then He retains those against which He has decreed death (Surah az-Zumar, 39:43). [Publisher]
