Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 194
194 AHMADIYY AT visit while the construction of the large building designed by him in Bhera was in progress. Sometime later Hazrat Ahmad indicated to him that he should settle down in Qadian and should put it out of his mind that Bhera was his home. Maulvi Sahib used often to say that after receiving this direction the idea that Bhera was his home was completely excluded from his mind. His life at Qadian was a model of perfect obedience and complete identification with his mas- ter, Hazrat Ahmad. Most of his time was taken up in teaching the Holy Quran and exposition of its verities. He also helped those who came to him for advice in his capacity as a physician; and thus he made himself a source of beneficence, physical as well as spiritual. All his activity, however, was subject to such directions as he might receive from his master. Almost immediately after his election as First Successor of the Promised Messiah some of those very gentlemen who had insistently urged upon Maulvi Nurud Din Sahib that he should take over the heavy responsibilities of the Khilafat and become Head of the Movement founded by the Promised Messiah, and who had announced that in such an event his orders would be as binding upon the members of the Move- ment as had been the orders of the Promised Messiah himself, began to have second thoughts about the wisdom of the step that they had taken. The most prominent of those who felt uneasy in the situation that they had helped to create, were Khawaja Kamalud-din Sahib and Maulvi Muhammad Ali Sahib. Within a week of the election of the Khalifa Khawaja Kamalud-din Sahib, during a visit to Qadian, mentioned to Sahibzada Mirza Hahmud Ahmad Sahib, in private, that he thought that an error had been committed in the matter of the setting up of the Khilafat, in that the authority of the Khalifa had not been clearly defined and laid down. Khawaja Kamalud-din Sahib expressed the view that the functions of the Khalifa should be confined to taking the covenant of Ba'iat from new entrants into the Movement, leading the prayer services, making the announcements and delivering