ME AND MAULANA: A PERSONAL RECOLLECTION OF WAHIDUDDIN KHAN - John M. Butt

God spoke to me for hours, but I forgot what he said to me when I woke up from the dream. And how for years I had tried to find an interpretation of that dream, without any success. Today I was reminded of the dream due to the similarity of the events. Maulana listened attentively to me, then simply smiled and asked Rajat who was sitting next to him, “Have I ever asked to see anybody’s hand before this?’ Rajat replied that he was also surprised as this was the first time Maulana had done so. Then Maulana turned to me and said, “I never do this, but today God guided me to ask to see your hands, to make it a demonstration for you.” Elaborating on this, he said that when I had had the dream, I was too young and immature to understand what God had said to me in the dream, so God had made me forget His words when I woke up from the dream. Now that I had reached the age of maturity, I was in a position to understand what God had told me. Through this incident God demonstrated that this was the place where I would receive the message that God had given me in detail in the dream. Listening to Maulana’s explanation was so thrilling for me. I could do nothing but thank God for finally giving me an explanation of my dream through Maulana. My thankfulness increased manifold when I remembered that I had had that dream at Nizamuddin East in the mid-seventies, where I was visiting my cousins and God had got the dream interpreted in September 2004 in Nizamuddin West through Maulana. I was convinced that God had guided me to Maulana.