Meeting a the soul of a Wali:
An incident from the life of Shah Waliyullah al-Dehlawi Radiyallahu anhu [d. 1176 A.H]
Shah Waliyullah writes that his father, Shah Abdur Raheem, informed him once that when he went to the shrine of Hadrat Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtyar Kaaki Rahimahullah, "The soul of Bakhtyar Kaaki became apparent and told me that I shall have a son and that I should name him Qutbuddin Ahmad. At this time, my wife had become elderly and was beyond child bearing age. On hearing this, I thought to myself that maybe I shall have a grandson. The soul of Bakhtyar Kaaki got to know of my thinking and removed my doubt and said that it did not give me tidings of a grandson, rather, this child will be my very own. Some time later, I married again and from this marriage (Shah) Waliyullah was born ." At the time of his birth, his father Shah Abdur Raheem had forgotten about this event and named him Waliyullah. When his father later came to recalled the meeting he gave his son Waliyullah a second name, Qutbuddin Ahmad.
Anfaas al-`Arifeen, p.110
